CIA Factbook – India 2012
INDIA PRINT PAGE LAST UPDATED ON JUNE 20, 2012 Introduction ::INDIA Background: The Indus Valley civilization, one of the world’s oldest, flourished during the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C. and extended into northwestern India. Aryan tribes from the northwest infiltrated onto the Indian subcontinent about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants …
