The document summarizes the history of early India from 2500 BC to the establishment of the East India Company in 1608 AD. It describes the Indus Valley Civilization which flourished from 2500-2000 BC, its decline around 2000 BC, the arrival of the Aryans around 1600 BC, the spread of Buddhism in 500 AD, the Maurya Empire from 321-185 BC, the Gupta Empire from 320-535 AD, periods of invasion and the establishment of small kingdoms from 232 BC-268 AD, the Muslim expansion, the Mughal Empire from 1526-1700s, and the founding of the East India Company in 1608 which eventually came to rule large parts of India.