North India

Dark red region marks the approximate extent of northern India while the regions marked as light red lies within the sphere of north Indian influence.

Northern India, also known as Hindustan, is a land and cultural region of India. In traditional Indian geography, India is pieced into five major zones: North India, North-east India, East India, West India and South India.

As a linguistic-cultural and political region, North India consists of six Indian states: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan also The National Capital Territory of Delhi is also a part of northern India. It shares some of its cultural, historical, musical, and linguistic heritage with neighboring Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir, which was part of British India empire prior to the 1947 Independence. The North Indian Plain is a large part of it.

History

The empires and dynasties that have ruled parts or all of North India include:

• Maurya Empire, 326 – 187 BCE
• Indo-Greek Kingdom, c.150 BCE – 10 CE (Menander I conquered Punjab)
• Northern Satraps, 1st century BCE to 1st century CE
• Gupta Empire, during the reign of Samudragupta, c.335 – c.550 CE
• Empire of Harsha, 606 to 647 CE
• Pala Empire, 770 to 810 CE
• Pratihara Empire, mid-7th to the 11th century
• Delhi Sultanate, 1206–1526
• Mughal Empire, 1526–1540, then 1555–1857, interrupted briefly by the Sur Empire,
• Sur Empire 1540–1556
• Sikh Empire 1799–1849
• Maratha Empire 1761–1818
• British Indian Empire 1858–1947

The Delhi Sultanate, Mughal and British Indian Empires had Delhi as their capital from time to time.

Related pages

• Church of North India

Other websites

• Ampur: A Virtual Village Archived 2007-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
• More Info about Northern India
• North India - New Delhi (Capital) City Guide