Chandragupta Maurya

One of the key components of any successful civilization throughout history is political control. It has proven itself absolutely necessary when it comes to maintaining order in any society. Political organization began to become much more elaborate during the Classical period, offering government leaders more control over the population. We see many different approaches to maintaining this control throughout the classical period civilizations. The Classical period Han and Mauryan dynasty…

The British ruled over India with an iron fist, controlling their lifestyles, imposing their taxes, and forever influencing India’s culture. However, now, India is free from any rule and has one of the highest populations in the world and a strong and powerful economy. After gaining its independence from Britain, India chose the Asoka Chakra to represent their flag, naming it after a ruler that lived over 2,000 years ago. But why choose Asoka? Some historians say that Asoka was a ruthless…

For a long time, people thought King Asoka to be nothing more than a myth. With several writings concerning him, each relayed too fantastical an image to be convincing as truthful, keeping him in a legendary status. This all changed in 1837, well over a thousand years after his death, when a scholar James Prinsep managed to translate writings on a stone pillar in Delhi. After several other scholars raced to translate similar writings all over the Indian landscape, it became known that this King…

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Introduction: Chandragupta Maurya was founder of the Mauryan dynasty which lasted for almost 140 years and the first emperor to unify most of India under one administration. He ruled from 324 B.C till 297 B.C when he voluntary retired and abdicated in favor of his son, Bindusara. He is credited with saving the country from maladministration and freeing it from foreign domination. Assisted by his political and administrative advisor, Kautalya, he established the first territorial empire in…

were at constant war. When Chandragupta ascended the throne and began the notable empire in 320 CE, the time of darkness was reversed. Chandragupta set up a stable civilization with a well-functioning government, but his son, Samudragupta, was the individual responsible for extending the empire. He raided through Indian territories with little…

of the few ancient empires that cared for all of its citizens. With his ruling style, most historians consider Asoka to be the ruler that brought the Mauyran Empire to its greatest heights, and quite possibly the best ancient emperor of all. Asoka Maurya at first was a Hindu. Because of his religious beliefs, he did not follow the pacifist teachings the Buddhists highly valued. Therefore, he sought to conquer much of the Indian subcontinent. His…

years after the failure of the Indian campaign Alexander the great met his end, two years further still and Chandragupta of the Magadha established the Maurya Empire in India. 8. Maurya Empire The Maurya Empire was a power in (c. 322 to 187 BCE) eastern India founded by Chandragupta Maurya. Having taken advantage of Alexander the Greats armies in general retreat, the Mauryans lead by Chandragupta himself overthrew the Satraps in power and expanded their borders eastward. Chandragupta's…

Later tribes merged to form organized provinces. For example the Mauryan Empire. The Mauryan Empire was formed after Chandragupta took over India from the Macedonians in 304 B.C. With its formation, there was the invention of provincial administration. A provincial administration is when an empire is split into provinces. In those provinces there were its own individual government…

Quite a bit of our insight about state strategy under the Mauryas originates from the Arthashastra composed by Kautilya (all the more famously known as Chanakya), who was a Brahmin pastor under Chandragupta Maurya. In spite of the fact that it was composed toward the end of the fourth century BC, it seems to have been rediscovered just in 1905, following quite a while of insensibility. The treatise in its present structure is in all probability not the content composed by Kautilya, however it is…