A History of India, Third Edition
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES Alexander’s example. They are referred to as ‘Indo-Greeks’ and there were about forty such kings and r ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES conquered the area around Gwalior and probably also the old provincial capital, Ujjain. In a parallel ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES Another Indo-Greek contribution, of great importance for historians, is their highly developed coinage ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES Shakas wiped out the Indo-Greek kingdoms but largely adopted their culture with which they had already ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES In the last decades BC the Shaka empire showed definite signs of decay while the provincial governors ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES himself king, attacked the Parthians and conquered Kao-fu (Kabul) and Ki- pin (Kashmir). When he died, ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES found in the eastern parts of the Kushana empire in the Ganga-Yamuna Doab, which was probably under th ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES Mathura school of art which set the style of Indian art. This school produced the famous statue of Kan ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES called Vashishka. There is another inscription at Ara in the northwestern Panjab of the year 41 by a k ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES added to it by a Yavanaraja Tushaspha under Ashoka Maurya.^4 This would indicate that a Yavana king se ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES supremacy over northern India. Apart from Kanishka’s Indo-Central Asian empire which could claim to be ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES The best-known contribution of the ‘dark period’ was, of course, to Indian art. After the early sculpt ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES Chandragupta introduced a new era starting with his coronation in AD 320 and he also assumed the title ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES The Allahabad inscription also lists fourteen realms and tribes whose rulers are described as ‘border ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES contrast with medieval European vassals they were obviously not obliged to join Samudragupta’s army in ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES between 397 and 409: after 397 because for this year coins of the Shaka ruler Rudrasimha III are exist ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES diminished the gold content of these coins but at the same time he increased their weight from 7.8 g t ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES refers to the freedom of the rural people which is in contrast with a later period when land grants of ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES storehouse of myths about different gods as well as legends concerning the holy places of the Hindus. ...
THE GREAT ANCIENT EMPIRES attained its final shape. It thus served as the model for the successor states of the Gupta empire. Fr ...
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