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Varanasi through time

Uttar Pradesh

Also known as: Kashi (the ancient name, also the Mahajanapada)

  1. Theme 4 · 600 to 300 BCE

    Janapadas, Mahajanapadas and the second urbanisation

    Capital of Kashi, near the Ganga, bound by the Varuna and Asi rivers, hence the name

  2. Theme 5 · 6th century BCE to 321 BCE

    Persian and Greek invasions, and the rise of Magadha

    Capital of Kashi, won by Ajatashatru from Kosala

  3. Theme 8b · 200 BCE to 300 CE; the Western Satraps to 415

    The northwestern invasions: Indo Greeks, Shakas, Pahlavas, Kushanas and the Western Satraps

    Kanishka's empire reached down the Gangetic plain to Varanasi

  4. Theme M2 · 711 to 1186 CE

    The advent of Islam and the first Turkish invasion

    The Gahadavala city that Govindachandra was set to protect from the Turushka, by Kumaradevi's Sarnath inscription

  5. Theme M3 · 1150 to 1210 CE

    The second Turkish invasion and the Rajput kingdoms

    The Gahadavala city on the Ganga, sacked after Chandawar in 1194

  6. Theme M9 · 1200 to 1700 CE

    The Bhakti and Sufi movements

    Banaras, where Ramananda is said to have taught, Kabir wove and Ravidas worked leather