Games and Recreations Inscriptions of the period refer frequently to utsava and samaja, festivities and merry gatherings. Kings considered it a duty to give practical demonstration of their... Read more
Social Conditions Varna (caste) and asrama (period or stages of religious discipline), the two characteristic institutions of the Hindu social polity, reached a definite stage in the Maurya... Read more
The cost of civil and military administration even at the centre must have been enormous. The chief sources of revenue from villages mentioned in an inscription of Asoka are the bhaga and th... Read more
Forms of Government IN the period under review we have for the first time in the history of this country great empires extending from the Hindukush to the valleys of the Godavari and the Kri... Read more
Successors of Kanishka I Kanishka’s rule lasted for twenty-three years. His immediate successor was Vasishka, who had a short reign and was succeeded by Huvishka. The empire of Huvishk... Read more
Fall of the Parthians and the Kushan Conquest Long before the final catastrophe that ultimately overtook the satrapal line of Chashtana, theKujula kadphises Saka-Pahlava emperors of the nort... Read more
Kharavela of Kalinga The earlier Satavahana empire had a formidable rival in the kingdom of Kalinga, which had thrown off the yoke of Magadha some time after the death of Asoka and risen to... Read more
Successors of the Imperial Mauryas. WITH the fall of the Mauryas, Indian history for the time being loses its unity. The command of one single political authority is no longer obeyed over a... Read more
Ramayana is the story of Rama, the eldest son of Dasaratha, a prince of the Ikshvaku family of Ayodhya in the Fyzabad district of Uttar Pradesh. The prince married Sita, the daughter of Jana... Read more
Buddhist Scriptures The unanimous tradition of all Buddhist schools records that shortly after the death of the Master a great Council (Sangiti) was held at Rajagriha to compile the Dharma (... Read more
