☑️ Chalcolithic Period (Copper Age/Bronze Age) 🩸 Indus Valley Civilization (2700 BC – 1900 BC) Other settlements at :- • Brahmagiri Navada Toli (Narmada region) • Chirand (Ganga region) and • Mahishadal (West Bengal)

Channel
UPSC Ancient history notes optional
@upsc_ancient_history_notes
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
10,329subscribers
-50 since we began measuring on 19 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001374991001 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @upsc_ancient_history_notes |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 19 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 9 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 17 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 9 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/upsc_ancient_history_notes |
Topic
Education — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 11 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sept 2026, 02:58 | 10,329 | -6 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 19:16 | 10,335 | -6 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 18:55 | 10,341 | -4 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 10:48 | 10,345 | -3 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 07:28 | 10,348 | +1 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 04:07 | 10,347 | -2 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 01:45 | 10,349 | -1 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 04:03 | 10,350 | -1 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 07:34 | 10,351 | -3 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 06:08 | 10,354 | -3 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 02:44 | 10,357 | -4 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 03:11 | 10,361 | -5 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 22:18 | 10,366 | -8 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 08:14 | 10,374 | -4 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 00:07 | 10,378 | -1 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 22:34 | 10,379 | no change |
| 19 Aug 2026, 20:30 | 10,379 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 10 December 2021 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 18 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 1 March 2022. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
☑️ Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) 🩸 Starting of agriculture. 🩸 Moving from nomadic to settled life. 🩸 Wheel discovered. Ragi, wheat and horse gram were cultivated. 🩸 They knew to make fire. 🩸Knew pottery. 🩸Art was seen in cave paintings of dance. 🩸Also show first intentional disposal of the dead. Important sites: • Inamgaon • Burzahom (Kashmir) • Mehrgarh (Pakistan) • Daojali Hading (Tripura/Assam) • Ha…
☑️ Mesolithic Period (Middle Stone Age) 🩸 Major climate change happened. 🩸 Climate became warmer and more humid. 🩸 Rainfall increased and so more availability of flora and fauna. 🩸 Domestication of animals and plants were seen for the first time. 🩸 Started 12000 years ago. 🩸 First animal to be domesticated was the wild ancestor of the dog. 🩸 Sheep and goats were the most common domesticated animals. 🩸 Hunting…
☑️ Upper Palaeolithic age 🩸 Emergence of Homo sapiens 🩸 Lot of bone tools, including needles, harpoons, blades, fishing tools and burin tools. 🩸 Major sites of Upper Palaeolithic age • Belan • Son • Chota Nagpur plateau (Bihar) • Maharashtra • Orissa and • Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh • Paintings at Bhimbetka site belong to this age
☑️ Middle Palaeolithic age 🩸 Tools used were blades, pointers, scrapers and borers. 🩸 The tools were smaller, lighter and thinner. 🩸 Important middle Palaeolithic age sites • Belan valley in UP • Luni valley (Rajasthan) • Son and Narmada rivers
☑️ Lower Palaeolithic age 🩸 Hunters and food gatherers; tools used were axes, choppers and cleavers. 🩸 Earliest lower Palaeolithic site is Bori in Maharashtra. 🩸 Limestone was also used to make tools. 🩸 Major sites of lower Palaeolithic age. • Soan valley (in present Pakistan) • Sites in the Thar Des…
☑️ Palaeolithic Period (Old Stone Age) This is further divided into three: 🩸 Lower Palaeolithic Age: up to 100,000 BC 🩸 Middle Palaeolithic Age: 100,000 BC – 40,000 BC 🩸 Upper Palaeolithic Age: 40,000 BC – 10,000 BC
☑️ Pre historic period can be divided into different periods according to the tools used by people then. 🩸 Palaeolithic Period: 2 million BC – 10,000 BC 🩸 Mesolithic Period: 10,000 BC – 8000 BC 🩸 Neolithic Period: 8000 BC – 4000 BC 🩸 Chalcolithic Period: 4000 BC – 1500 BC 🩸 Iron Age: 1500 BC – 200 BC
🏮 SANGAM LITERATURE. #Historicalsources 📍 The earliest literature of South India is represented by group of texts in old Tamil, often collectively referred to as Sangam literature. 📍 A tradition recorded in post-7th century texts speaks of three Sangams or literary gatherings in ancient times. 📍 The first is supposed to held in Madurai for 4,440 years, the second at Kapatapuram for 3,700 years, and the third in M…
■ KANNADA LITERATURE. #Historicalsources ◇ Earliest Kannada inscriptions date from the 5th/6th century onwards, but the oldest surviving piece of literature in this language is the Kavirajamarga (The Royal Road of the Poets), a 9th century work on poetics. ◇ The best known poets of the 10th century were Pampa, Ponna, and Ranna, all of whom wrote Jaina Puranas. ◇ Pampa, author of the Adi Purana (an account of the…
🏮 JAINA LITERATURE. [ PART 1 ] #Historicalsources 📍 The sacred books of the Jainas are collectively known as the Siddhanta or Agama. 📍 The language of the earliest texts is an eastern dialect of Prakrit known as Ardha Magadhi. 📍 The Jaina monastic order came to be divided into the Shvetambara and Digambara schools, perhaps in about the 3rd century CE. 📍 The Shvetambara canon includes the 12 Angas, 12 Uvamgas (Up…
🏮 BUDDHIST LITERATURE [PART -2] #Historicalsources Non - canonical Buddhist literature. 📍 Non-canonical Buddhist literature in Pali includes the Milindapanha which consists of a dialogue on various philosophical issues between king Milinda— the Indo-Greek Menander and the monk Nagasena. 📍 The Nettigandha or Nettipakarana belongs to the same period and gives a connected account of the teaching of the Buddha. 📍 …
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @upsc_ancient_history_notes. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Mentions
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@UPSC_Prelims_Mains_CSE_Notes · 59,479
Telegram ranks this channel #26 of 58 here — alongside 57 others — read 25 August 2026
@shubhamkr_ias · 90,817
Telegram ranks this channel #27 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 27 August 2026
@upsc_optional_history_notes · 38,244
Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 71 here — alongside 70 others — read 31 August 2026
@The_Hindu_Newspapers_GS_GK_UPSC · 73,111
Telegram ranks this channel #38 of 74 here — alongside 73 others — read 19 August 2026
This channel appears in 4 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 9 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“UPSC Ancient history notes optional” (@upsc_ancient_history_notes), 10,329 subscribers as measured 9 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/upsc_ancient_history_notes.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.