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In this article, India refers to the entire Asian subcontinent south of Afghanistan and the Himalayan range, including the modern nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal (often referred to as the "Indic" region) as well as the island nation Sri Lanka. In the third millennium B.C.E. there flourished a civilization in and around the Indus Valley known as the Harrapan city culture. Gradually, from the second millennium, the subcontinent was infiltrated by Indo-European tribes from Central Asia. These people formed the classical culture that survives to modern times with many transformations....
