History of Jharkhand: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|History of a region of India}}

The region have been inhabited  since the [[Stone Age]].<ref name="auto">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6PcADgAAQBAJ&q=microlith+in+chota+nagpur+plateau&pg=PT14|title=India – Pre- historic and Proto-historic periods|first=India-Pre- historic and Proto-historic|last=periods|date=4 November 2016|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting|via=Google Books|isbn=9788123023458}}</ref> [[Copper]] tools from the [[Chalcolithic]] period have been discovered.<ref name="auto1">{{cite journal|url=http://crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/510/|title=Addenda to "The Copper Hoards of the Indian Subcontinent: Preliminaries for an Interpretation"|first=Paul|last=Yule|date=8 January 2019|journal=Man in Environment|volume=26|pages=117–120|via=crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de|doi=10.11588/xarep.00000510}}</ref> This area entered the [[Iron Age in India|Iron Age]] during the mid-2nd millennium BCE.<ref name="auto2">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3lUIIYxWkEC&pg=PA220|title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century|first=Upinder|last=Singh|date=8 January 2019|publisher=Pearson Education India|via=Google Books|isbn=9788131711200}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The unrest axle: ethno-social movements in Eastern India |pages=32–35 |author=Gautam Kumar Bera |publisher= Mittal Publications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9qrmTdshzKQC&q|isbn=978-81-8324-145-8|year=2008}}</ref>