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India's dawn breaks in Harappan harbors where copper traders bartered beads for lapis, their grid streets draining monsoon muck while Vedic chants echoed from Ganges ghats, birthing castes and cowherd kings. Mauryan axes cleared jungles for Ashoka's edicts, Gupta golden ages gilded math whizzes like Aryabhata, while Chola fleets sailed to Sumatra shores, temples towering like stone sails. Invasions crashed next-Ghazni's raids ransacking Somnath gold, Delhi sultans stacking Qutub spires amid Persian poetry, a patchwork of paddy fields and palace plots that no drought could dry. Mughals splashed color: Akbar's tolerant courts blending Hindu firewalks with Sufi spins, Taj Mahal's marble mourning Shah Jahan's loss, but Aurangzeb's zeal frayed the fringes till British boots stomped in, East India clerks turning tea taxes into mutinies that scorched '57. Gandhi's loom spun swadeshi threads, Nehru's tryst with destiny hoisting the tricolor in '47, but partition's trains ran red, carving Pakistan from the flesh while refugees rebuilt from rubble. Colonial chains snapped, but echoes lingered in English teacups and railway ticks. Post-independence thunder: Indira's emergency iron fist, economic '91 unshackling that sparked mall booms and mobile millions, Bollywood exporting masala dreams while Kashmir simmered and Kerala schooled the world. India's no linear legend-it's a bazaar brawl of bhagwans and billionaires, proving a crowded canvas can paint the planet's pulse.

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