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India's last king Wajid Ali Shah was written out of the history books when Awadh was annexed by the Company in February 1856. After long years of painstaking research, noted historian Rosie Llewellyn-Jones revives his memory and returns him his rightful place as one of India's last great rulers. 103.226.188.8 (talk) 07:03, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I give ChatGPT the lead and it shortened the lead to one paragraph. While the text obviously not suitable for Wikipedia, it is quite interesting to look at:

Anatomically modern humans first arrived in the Indian subcontinent from Africa between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago, according to modern genetics. The transition from foraging to farming and pastoralism, known as settled life, began in South Asia around 7000 BCE. The Indus Valley Civilization, an early civilization of the Old World contemporaneous with Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, developed from this settled life and flourished in present-day Pakistan and north-western India between 2500 BCE and 1900 BCE. In the early second millennium BCE, Indo-Aryan tribes migrated into the Punjab and their Vedic Period, from 1500 BCE to 500 BCE, saw the rise of Jainism and Buddhism. The Maurya Empire conquered most of the Indian subcontinent in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE and was followed by the Gupta Empire in the 4th to 6th centuries CE, known as the classical or "Golden Age of India." Islam spread to India in the 8th century and the Mughal Empire, which synthesized Indian and Persian cultures, ruled in the 16th century. The British Empire colonized India in the 19th century and the country gained independence in 1947. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 10:55, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect History of India and Pakistan and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 January 12 § History of India and Pakistan until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 03:05, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Daily life in ancient india and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 January 12 § Daily life in ancient india until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 03:06, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What was the speed of population growth during the second urbanization? --95.24.60.6 (talk) 03:51, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Recently the Mauryan Empire map included in this article was changed from to . Both maps are labelled as the "Maurya Empire c. 250 BCE" but show significantly different extents; and both have gone numerous revisions over the years so that they are unlikely to bear much relation with the cited sources on their description page. Anyone know offhand which map (if either) is accurate? Pinging @RegentsPark and Fowler&fowler: for sanity check. Abecedare (talk) 12:43, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The one on the left is the one with support in the modern sources and therefore the correct one; the one on the right is the traditional one. We mention what the map on the left shows in words in the India page, "Politically, by the 3rd century BCE, the kingdom of Magadha had annexed or reduced other states to emerge as the Mauryan Empire. The empire was once thought to have controlled most of the subcontinent except the far south, but its core regions are now thought to have been separated by large autonomous areas," cited to the books of Burton Stein and Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund. The map on the left is also the main map in the Maurya Empire page and was the result of a consensus; someone changed it, probably very recently, and I had to revert it. That map has quite a few sources, including Monica Smith of UCLA whose work addresses this very issue. Also, historian David Ludden, now of NYU, but then of Penn, (and perennially the stepson of Betty White, who said in an interview, "Our son is a historian at Penn, who works on the agricultural history of South India. Go figure. :)) in India and South Asia has addressed this. We have cited Ludden in the sentence, "Early political consolidations gave rise to the loose-knit Maurya and Gupta Empires based in the Ganges Basin." in the lead of India. I have italicized the reference to the map on the left. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 13:18, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot to ping @Abecedare: in my reply. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 13:52, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've copied the maps and aligned them; "left" and "right" were, on my screen, due to length of the lines, different from what I understand F&f to mean. The 'map with the holes' is the modern understanding, right? Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 14:01, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]