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The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t7.60

The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t7.60

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c14.s1.t7.60

By land from the north have come the Scythians and the Huns (B.C. 200-A.D. 500), the Gurjaras (A.D. 400-600), the early Jadejas and Kathis (A.D. 750-900), wave on wave of Afghan, Turk, Mughal and other northern Musalmans (A.D. 1000-1500), and the later Jadejas and Kathis (A.D. 1300-1500): From the north-east the Pre-historic Aryans till almost modern times (A.D. 1100-1200) continued to send settlements of Northern Brahmins; and since the 13th century have come Turk, Afghan and Moghul Musalmans; From the east have come the Mauryans (B.C. 300), the half-Scythian Kshatrapas (B.C. 100-300 A.D.), the Guptas (A.D. 380), the Gurjjaras (A.D. 400-600), the Moghuls (A.D. 1530) and the Marathas (A.D. 1750): And from the South the Satakarnis (A.D. 100), the Chalukyas and Rashtrakutas (A.D. 650-950), occasional Musalman raiders (A.D. 1400-1600), the Protugese (A.D. 1500), the Marathas (A.D. 1660-1760) and the British (A.D. 1780-1820)".¹