Samudragupta
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Gana Sangha and Rajatantra in Ancient Bharat
Script for a video tracing the contest between gana-sangha republics and monarchy in ancient India, from Magadha’s conquest of the Licchavi-led Vajji confederacy to the Gupta alliance with the Licchavis.…
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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…
