Talk:Ancient india

Why redirect Ancient India to Mauryan Empire?
Would someone care to explain this? It would be far more sensible to link this page to History of India or Ancient India (disambiguation). Yet we have someone who decided to unilaterally redefine the English word "ancient" to mean a 200 year period from 300 BCE to 100 BCE. Shall we ignore 3300 BCE to 300 BCE and 100 BCE to 500 CE? What do we call that? Or did human civilization not exist in India during these periods? Give me a respectable source that considers the Mauryan Empire to constitute the whole of "Ancient India". Wikipedia probably has many, many culture and history articles that refer to "Ancient India". All of these would get redirected to Mauryan empire, when the topic in question may be relevant to an entirely different period of Indian history before or after this meager 200 year period. The disambiguation page already specifically mentions the Mauryan empire anyway. -- Matuenih (talk) 11:41, 8 December 2009 (UTC)