Indian Mastiff Dogs origin known at Thanjavur and Trichy district of South India and the Bhawalpur area of Punjab, parts of Rajasthan, and the desert area of Kutch.
Today, the purebred Indian Mastiff are largely found in Maharashtra.
Dog domestication began as early as 18,800–32,100 years ago in Europe or that early dogs dating from about 12,000 to 14,000 years ago came from a small strain of gray wolf that inhabited in India.
Fossil remains suggest that Indian Mastiff dogs existed by the beginning of the Bronze Age (about 4500 BCE). Skulls of large dogs date from the stone and bronze ages. Ancestors of today's Mastiff breeds are believed to have accompanied the armies of the Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and Romans and later, traveled with Atilla the Hun and Genghis Khan as far west as Europe.
Indian dogs were highly prized among the Persian aristocracy; Xerxes I (489-65 B.C.E.) reportedly took a large number of them with his army when he marched against Greece.