FROM time immemorial the people of India had free and intimate intercourse with the outside world. Even in the dim pre-historic age, the Neolithic people, as we have seen above, had relation... Read more
Vedic Rites Vedic rites which Samudra Gupta made attempts to revive after a long period of abeyance in certain areas, had their staunch advocates in the Purva Mimamsa or Karma Mimamsa school... Read more
Siva Worship The worship of Siva found favour with many of the highest officials during the early Gupta age. Pasupata or Saiva acharyas are constantly mentioned in contemporary records of th... Read more
Religion The Gupta age is usually regarded as an era of Brahmanic revival. There can be no doubt thathinduism Brahmanism enjoyed imperial patronage. Some of the rulers make a pointed claim t... Read more
Social Conditions Social conditions underwent rapid changes during the period under review. This is hinted at by those epigraphs that refer to some of the most distinguished rulers of the ag... Read more
The Administrative System THE period of the Gupta emperors and their successors saw the gradual disappearance of non-monarchical states. After the sixth century, monarchy becomes the only fo... Read more
Bengal under the later Palas and the Senas Sheltered by the Kalachuris and the early Gahadavalas who for more than a century protected the Madhya-desa against a rush of invasion from the nor... Read more
Revival of the Vikramadityan Tradition The situation in the latter part of the eleventh and first three quarters of the twelfth century was not unlike that in the sixth century AD. The old e... Read more
The Coming of the Arabs IN the western part of Asia lies a vast country called Arabia, a land of rocks and deserts with few oases and fertile valleys thinly peopled by a hardy and sturdy fol... Read more
The Great Rashtrakutas The Rashtrakutas in their later records claim descent from Satyaki, a Yadava chief of the north, a close associate of Krishna, famed in epic tradition. Some scholars c... Read more
