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Historians reconstruct India's past by comparing archaeological remains, inscriptions, coins and literary texts. No single source tells the whole story; each provides different evidence and has its own limitations.
Buddhism spread from northern India to Sri Lanka, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and Tibet. Royal patronage, trade routes, monasteries, travelling monks, translation movements and local adaptation all played major roles in this expansion.
Historians reconstruct the early Vedic world by combining the Rigveda, comparative linguistics, archaeology and increasingly ancient DNA. These sources support movements and cultural interaction across Central and South Asia, but no single source can identify a simple racial group called the 'Aryans'.
The Rigvedic period is reconstructed primarily from the Rigveda. Its world was centred largely in the northwestern subcontinent, with cattle pastoralism playing a major economic role alongside agriculture. Political organization revolved around kin groups, chiefs and assemblies.
By around the sixth century BCE, a number of large territorial states known as Mahajanapadas had emerged across northern India and adjoining regions. The Anguttara Nikaya preserves a famous list of sixteen. Magadha, Kosala, Vatsa and Avanti became major powers, while polities such as Vajji followed forms of gana-sangha political organisation.
The Indus Civilization used a still-undeciphered writing system found mainly on seals, tablets, pottery and other small objects. Harappan seals combine short inscriptions with animal motifs and probably played roles in identity, administration and exchange.
