A History of India, Third Edition

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES the south of Patna and the tribal republics of the Mallas and Vrijis to the north of it; and farther e ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES kilns. Kausambi had the most impressive fortification, its city walls are about 4 miles long and at so ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES Late Vedic age. This reform movement is mainly identified with the teaching of Gautama Buddha who is r ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES The voluminous Buddhist scriptures throw a flood of light on the life and times of Gautama Buddha. He ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES have not been found in India so far. Only the towns of the Bhir Mound at Taxila and Charsada, west of ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES Ajatashatru had barely established his hegemony over the Gangetic plains he was challenged by King Pra ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES strategic advantage due to its access to the deposits of iron ore in Chota Nagpur and its better armam ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES legend of their great treasure which they are supposed to have hidden in the river Ganga reminds us of ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES By this time the monsoon had set in and the rains obstructed Alexander’s march east. He was determined ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES At any rate Chandragupta seems to have usurped the throne of Magadha in 320 BC. He used the subsequent ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES private person is permitted to own land. In addition to this general rent they give one quarter of the ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES medieval Indian politics is that the coexistence of various smaller rival kingdoms was much more typic ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES limits of political feasibility. It was recognised that high taxes and forced labour would drive the p ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES stated: ‘Even a hundredth or a thousandth part only of the people who were slain, killed or abducted i ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES in Indian history the kings of these distant countries are mentioned by name in the thirteenth rock ed ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES assume that it was conducted more or less in line with what had been mentioned by Megasthenes and Kaut ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES only in the frontier provinces of the empire and not at its centre. Three were found in the northwest ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES mahajanapadas in the triangle Delhi-Pataliputra-Ujjain. Campaigns of conquest had added the northwest, ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES contradict each other. None of Ashoka’s successors produced any larger rock edicts. Perhaps the patern ...

THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES Sanchi before ascending the throne. This was reported by the great poet Kalidasa, several centuries la ...