i want to know history of india?
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India's History\n\n India's extraordinary history is intimately tied to its geography. A meeting ground between the East and the West, it has always been an invader's paradise, while at the same time its natural isolation and magnetic religions allowed it to adapt to and absorb many of the peoples who penetrated its mountain passes. No matter how many Persians, Greeks, Chinese nomads, Arabs, Portuguese, British and other raiders had their way with the land, local Hindu kingdoms invariably survived their depradations, living out their own sagas of conquest and collapse. All the while, these local dynasties built upon the roots of a culture well established since the time of the first invaders, the Aryans. In short, India has always been simply too big, too complicated, and too culturally subtle to let any one empire dominate it for long. \n\nTrue to the haphazard ambiance of the country, the discovery of India's most ancient civilization literally happened by accident. British engineers in the mid-1800's, busy constructing a railway line between Karachi and Punjab, found ancient, kiln-baked bricks along the path of the track. This discovery was treated at the time as little more than a curiosity, but archaeologists later revisited the site in the 1920's and determined that the bricks were over 5000 years old. Soon afterward, two important cities were discovered: Harappa on the Ravi river, and Mohenjodaro on the Indus. \n\nThe civilization that laid the bricks, one of the world's oldest, was known as the Indus. They had a written language and were highly sophisticated. Dating back to 3000 BC, they originated in the south and moved north, building complex, mathematically-planned cities. Some of these towns were almost three miles in diameter and contained as many as 30,000 residents. These ancient municipalities had granaries, citadels, and even household toilets. In Mohenjodaro, a mile-long canal connected the city to the sea, and trading ships sailed as far as Mesopotamia. At its height, the Indus civilization extended over half a million square miles across the Indus river valley, and though it existed at the same time as the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Sumer, it far outlasted them. \n\nThe first group to invade India were the Aryans, who came out of the north in about 1500 BC. The Aryans brought with them strong cultural traditions that, miraculously, still remain in force today. They spoke and wrote in a language called Sanskrit, which was later used in the first documentation of the Vedas. Though warriors and conquerors, the Aryans lived alongside Indus, introducing them to the caste system and establishing the basis of the Indian religions. The Aryans inhabited the northern regions for about 700 years, then moved further south and east when they developed iron tools and weapons. They eventually settled the Ganges valley and built large kingdoms throughout much of northern India. \n\nThe second great invasion into India occurred around 500 BC, when the Persian kings Cyrus and Darius, pushing their empire eastward, conquered the ever-prized Indus Valley. Compared to the Aryans, the Persian influence was marginal, perhaps because they were only able to occupy the region for a relatively brief period of about 150 years. The Persians were in turn conquered by the Greeks under Alexander the Great, who swept through the country as far as the Beas River, where he defeated king Porus and an army of 200 elephants in 326 BC. The tireless, charismatic conqueror wanted to extend his empire even further eastward, but his own troops (undoubtedly exhausted) refused to continue. Alexander returned home, leaving behind garrisons to keep the trade routes open. \n\n While the Persians and Greeks subdued the Indus Valley and the northwest, Aryan-based kingdoms continued developing in the East. In the 5th century BC, Siddhartha Gautama founded the religion of Buddhism, a profoundly influential work of human th
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http://www.royalty.nu/Asia/India/index.html
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All of your questions can be answered here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sri_Lanka
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go to the history button on your browser
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You can try this:\n\nhttp://www.timelines.info/history/continents_and_countries/middle_east_and_asia/middle_east/israel/ancient_israel/
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click on the  history icon on the tool bar
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www.worldhistory.com\nwww.historyofworld.com\nwww.eyewitness.com\nwww.hyperhistory.com
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visit miteindia.com where in u can find information
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Indo-China 1800-1200 BCE\nin the Near East 1300 BCE\nChina 600 BCE\nAfrica 1400 BCE\nEastern Europe 900 BCE\nCentral Europe 800 BCE\nEngland 500 BCE\nnon-Germanic Scandinavia 3000 BCE
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http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/india/india-political-map.htm\nhttp://www.map-of-spain.co.uk/large-map-of-spain.htm\nhttp://perljam.net/google-satellite-maps/
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Google with a properly formed query will find most of the information that is out there. Also try wikipedia for information on places which generally includes their history. \n\nWhat place do you wish to find information on and what sort of information do you require?
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I can send you the history if you want.
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Go to \n\nhttp://www.india-forums.com/\n\nYou will find the textual story as well as video clips of it
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Too big of a question to answer here!\n\nHowever there are several good websites on the subject.\n\nHere are two to get you started (the web design is a bit cheesy, but has some good content)\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/11372/\n\nAlso\nhttp://www.cultureofindia.net/\nhas some good info.
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Try these two:-\n\nhttp://www.bharatadesam.com/history/modern.php\n\nhttp://www.webindia123.com/history/MEDIEVAL/mughal%20period/mughal2.htm
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What do you want to know :\n-number\n-origin\n-history\n-what people do that day
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You can search on Yahoo or Google search Engine.\n\nAlso if you decide which topic you want to write about, you can search about it on Encylopedias like wikipedia or encarta or britannica or anyother..\n\nAlso there are many School/University sites where you can get ideas about. \n\nNOTE: If you are an Indian - DPS has some good sites where you can get past papers and project stuff.\n\nBest of luck on your project ;)