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    Since the Iron Age in India, the native languages of the Indian subcontinent are divided into various language families, of which the Indo-Aryan and the Dravidian...
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    Ancient Indian scripts have been used in the history of the Indian subcontinent as writing systems. The Indian subcontinent consists of various separate...
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    The horse has been present in the Indian subcontinent from at least the middle of the second millennium BC, more than two millennia after its domestication...
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    Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. The earliest known human remains in South Asia...
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    colonisation, the Persian language was the lingua franca of the Indian subcontinent and a widely used official language in North India. The language was...
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    Pottery in the Indian subcontinent has an ancient history and is one of the most tangible and iconic elements of Indian art. Evidence of pottery has been...
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    broader region in and around the historical Indian subcontinent, which includes the contemporary geopolitical entities of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,...
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    are a diverse collection of peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent. Historically, Aryans were the Indo-Iranian speaking pastoralists...
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    introduced paper currency in Indian subcontinent in 1861 officially. India has a rich tradition of financial instruments and hundi. In the modern sense, paper...
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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient India: Ancient India is the Indian subcontinent from prehistoric times...
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  • Elu (category Languages attested from the 3rd century BC)
    India. T. W. Press. ISBN 978-1406756326. https://siddham.network/inscription/in03124/?section=translation Linguistic history of the Indian subcontinent...
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    includes the northern region of the Indian subcontinent. Geographically, it is the region in and around the Indo-Gangetic Plain, including the Himalayas...
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    in the Indian subcontinent is conventionally said to have started in 712, after the conquest of Sindh and Multan by the Umayyad Caliphate under the military...
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    Dravidians are a "very complex subject of research and debate". They are regarded as indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, but may have deeper pre-Neolithic...
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    Irani (India) (category Indian people of Iranian descent)
    The Irani (Persian: ایرانی; meaning Iranian) are an ethno-religious community in the Indian subcontinent; they descend from the Zoroastrians who emigrated...
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    The earliest undisputed deciphered epigraphy found in the Indian subcontinent are the Edicts of Ashoka of the 3rd century BCE, in the Brahmi script. If...
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  • Persian and Urdu (category Linguistic history of India)
    in the formation and development of the modern Urdu, and today acts as its prestige language. Modern Persian was brought to the Indian subcontinent by...
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  • (disambiguation) Indian languages (disambiguation) Linguistic history of the Indian subcontinent List of ethnolinguistic regions of South Asia Languages of India...
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    Telugu-Kannada alphabet (category Use Indian English from January 2019)
    1.0. Culture of Andhra Pradesh § Literature Kannada inscriptions Palaeography § South India Linguistic history of the Indian subcontinent Pallava script...
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    Desi (category Culture of Indian diaspora)
    also Deshi) is a loose term used to describe the people, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora, derived from Sanskrit देश...
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    as the Indigenous Aryans theory (IAT) and the Out of India theory (OIT), is the conviction that the Aryans are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, and...
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    The Indo-Aryan migrations were the migrations into the Indian subcontinent of Indo-Aryan peoples, an ethnolinguistic group that spoke Indo-Aryan languages...
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    The South Asian diaspora, also known as the Desi diaspora, is the group of people whose ancestral origins lie in South Asia (the Indian subcontinent),...
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    languages. The Southern Indian languages are from the Dravidian family. The Dravidian languages are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. Proto-Dravidian...
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    650 CE), which coincides with the Gupta Empire. Following the conquest of Islamic rulers in the Indian subcontinent and spread of Islam in South Asia, an era...
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  • Proto-Dravidian is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages native to the Indian subcontinent. It is thought to...
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  • South Asian English (category Languages of South Asia)
    British Raj, the English language was introduced to the Indian subcontinent in the early 17th century and reinforced by the long rule of the British Empire...
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    culture, also known as Desi culture, is a mixture of several cultures in and around the Indian subcontinent. Ancient South Asian culture was primarily based...
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    southward into the northwestern Indian subcontinent: the present-day South Asian regions of Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India. The migrations persisted...
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    modern languages of the Indian subcontinent, particularly the languages of the northern, western, central and eastern Indian subcontinent. Sanskrit declined...
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