Age of the Nandas and MauryasKallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri The present work deals with the period c. 400-185 B.C. which saw grat changes in the political, economic and artistic life of India. Alexander, Chandragputa, Chanakya and Asoka dominate the period. We get vivid pictures of the outstanding events of the period--as of Alexander`s conquests and their influence on the cultural life of India, of the fusion of Brahma-Ksatra in the early Mauryan rule after the overthrow of the Nandas and of the rule of Asoka and his successors.The work consists of eleven chapters contributed by eminent historians. The reader would find the chapters on Mauryan Polity, Industry, Art, Religion, Language, and Literature very interesting and instructive. |
Contents
Empire of Magadha | 9 |
Regions beyond the Magadhan Empire | 26 |
2 The Far South | 42 |
Aornos | 51 |
Battle of the Jhelum | 57 |
After Jhelum | 64 |
Republican tribes | 70 |
Exploration and return to Babylon | 76 |
Name | 208 |
Other edicts | 213 |
Khotan | 220 |
Yuktas | 226 |
Aśokas Dharma | 234 |
The Successors of Aśoka | 243 |
CHAPTER VII | 249 |
CHAPTER VIII | 259 |
00 | 82 |
Greek Ambassadors | 89 |
Minerals | 95 |
People | 101 |
NorthWestern India | 108 |
Marriage and occupation rules | 116 |
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER III | 123 |
Chandragupta | 132 |
Bindusāra | 165 |
CHAPTER V | 171 |
King not owner of land | 177 |
Finance | 183 |
Review | 189 |
CHAPTER VI | 202 |
Trade | 268 |
State Industrial and Commercial Policy | 274 |
CHAPTER IX | 285 |
The ascetic movement | 294 |
Buddhism | 300 |
Language and Literature | 309 |
Brah | 325 |
CHAPTER XI | 343 |
Sociohistorical Background 000000 | 349 |
Columns | 362 |
Animal Figures | 370 |
Concluding Remarks | 388 |
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