Short noteon Vedic age
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The Vedic age or Vedic period (c.1500-c.500 BCE) is the period in the history of the Northern Indian Subcontinent between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilization and a second urbanisation which began in the central Indo- Gangetictic plain c. 600 BCE.
Answer:short note on vedic period
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The Vedic period or Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the history of the northern Indian subcontinent between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE. It gets its name from the Vedas, which are liturgical texts codified in the Kuru kingdom, a tribal union of several Indo-Aryan tribes, containing details of life during this period that have been interpreted to be historical[1] and constitute the primary sources for understanding the period. These documents, alongside the corresponding archaeological record, allow for the evolution of the Indo-Aryan and Vedic culture to be traced and inferred.[2]
Early Vedic period
Early Vedic Culture (1700-1100 BCE).png
Geographical range
Indian subcontinent
Period
Bronze Age India
Dates
c. 1500 – c. 1100 BCE
Preceded by
Indus Valley Civilisation
Followed by
Late Vedic period, Kuru Kingdom, Panchala, Videha
Late Vedic period
Late Vedic Culture (1100-500 BCE).png
Geographical range
Indian subcontinent
Period
Iron Age India
Dates
c. 1100 – c. 500 BCE
Preceded by
Early Vedic culture
Followed by
Haryanka dynasty, Mahajanapadas
The Vedas were composed and orally transmitted with precision by speakers of an Old Indo-Aryan language who had migrated into the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent early in this period. The Vedic society was patriarchal and patrilineal.[note 1] Early Indo-Aryans were a Late Bronze Age society centred in the Punjab, organised into tribes rather than kingdoms, and primarily sustained by a pastoral way of life.
Around c. 1200–1000 BCE, Indo-Aryans spread eastward to the fertile western Ganges Plain and adopted iron tools which allowed for clearing of forest and the adoption of a more settled, agricultural way of life. The second half of the Vedic period was characterised by the emergence of towns, kingdoms, and a complex social differentiation distinctive to India,[2] and the Kuru Kingdom's codification of orthodox sacrificial ritual.[3][4] During this time, the central Ganges Plain was dominated by a related but non-Vedic Indo-Aryan culture. The end of the Vedic period witnessed the rise of true cities and large states (called mahajanapadas) as well as śramaṇa movements (including Jainism and Buddhism) which challenged the Vedic orthodoxy.[5]
The Vedic period saw the emergence of a hierarchy of social classes that would remain influential. Vedic religion developed into Brahmanical orthodoxy, and around the beginning of the Common Era, the Vedic tradition formed one of the main constituents of "Hindu synthesis".[6]
Archaeological cultures identified with phases of Indo-Aryan material culture include the Ochre Coloured Pottery culture, the Gandhara grave culture, the black and red ware culture and the Painted Grey Ware culture