Gupta Empire
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Episode 10: North India – before and after Harsha
Gaurav and Jay join Maneesh in the History of India series to discuss North India before and after Harsha: political splintering after the Guptas, the Kumbha Mela, declining trade, urban…
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Episode 8: The Guptas and Classical Age of India
Gaurav Lele and Jay Vardhan, moderated by Maneesh Taneja, discuss the age of the Guptas in the History of India series: Samudragupta’s military record, the emergence of classical Hinduism, and…
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Legacy of the Gupta Age
Nachiketa argues that the Gupta age deserves recognition as a period of immense consequence even though ‘Golden Age’ claims are often retrospective, and compares its decline under Hun invasions with…
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Who was Sandrocottus ?
The author argues there are no solid grounds for identifying the Greek accounts’ Sandrocottus with Chandragupta Maurya, an identification that anchors ancient Indian chronology, and that the evidence favours Chandragupta…
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Indian Numismatics Browncast Podcast Coming Up –
Zack previews his podcast with the numismatist Mohit Kapoor on Indian coinage, calling it concise, well structured and full of new material, with something for Mughal and Gupta enthusiasts. He…
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Notes the emergence of “Indic civilization”
A supplement to the podcast clarifying terms: the author, a self-described semantic instrumentalist, says disagreements over words matter less than the concepts behind them, and uses ‘Indic’ for the civilisation…
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Books on Indian history without recency bias
Razib Khan complains that books on Indian history skew to the Muslim and colonial periods, for nationalist and source reasons, and asks readers for suggestions on ancient and medieval history,…
