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South Asian Styles & Periods
Includes modern India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka
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Early
Indus Valley (civilization) - ca. 2600-1900 BCE
Harappan - ca. 3300-ca. 1300 BCE
Mohenjo-daro (site: style/period, culture) - ca. 2500-2000 BCE
Vedic (period, culture) - ca. 1500 BCE-ca. 500 BCE
Indian Dynastic Styles and Periods
(Shakyamuni Buddha, ca. 563-483 BCE)
Saisunaga-Nanda (Pre-Maurya)- ca. 642-322 BCE
Maurya (Mauryan dynasty) - ca. 322-185 BCE (Ashoka: ruled ca. 273-232 BCE)
Sunga (Sunga dynasty, overthrew Maurya 185 BCE) - 185-72 BCE
Andhra (region/culture):
- Early Andhra - 73 BCE-50 CE
- Later Andhra - 3rd century CE
Kushan (dynasty/culture) - ca. 1st century BCE - 3rd century CE (ca. 30 BCE-433 CE):
- Gandhara (region/culture; modern-day Pakistan) - 2nd-6th centuries CE
- Mathura (city/culture)
Gupta (culture/period) - early 4th-late 5th centuries (ca. 320-486 CE)
- Sarnath (culture/city) - ca. late 5th century
Post-Gupta
