Geographical considerations -- The problem of dating -- Art and culture -- Foundations of Indic civilization: The prehistoric and protohistoric periods -- Antecendents of Indic civilization -- The Indus (or Harappa) civilization (ca. 2300 to 1750 B.C.) -- The Vedic and Upanisadic periods (ca. 1500 to 450 B.C.) -- Period of the early dynastics -- The Maurya period (ca. 323 to 185 B.C.) -- The Sunga period and related developments (ca. second century to first century B.C.) -- Regional developments (ca. Late irst century B.C. through frist century A.D.) -- The Saka and Parthian kingdoms in the Indic sphere (ca. frist century B.C. to mid-first century A.D.) -- The Northwest and Northern regions under the Kusansas (ca. Late first century to thrid century A.D.) -- Dynastics of the middle period -- The Gupta period (fourth to sixth centuries) -- The Gupta aftermath -- Buddhist cave architecture (fifth through seventh centuries) -- Hindu rock-cut architecture of the decan (Kalacuri and early Western Calukya phases) -- Southern developments under the Pallavas and the Pandyas -- The early Western Calukya and related schools of Deccan -- Hindu rock-cut architecture of the Western Deccan -- Later Northern schools -- Kasmir and related schools -- Bihar and Bengal under the Pala and Sena kings -- Orissa and related regions -- North-Central and Northwestern India: The art of the Rajput clans -- Later schools of the Deccan and the South -- The Cola and related schools of the Tamil South (mid-ninth to thirteenth centuries) -- Later Deccan schools -- The Vijayanagar period -- The Nayak period -- The Kerala region.
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