- Northwestern frontier was already demarcated by Chandragupta Maurya
- Asoka’s inscriptions mention the southernmost kingdoms- Cholas, Pandyas, Satyaputras and Keralaputras as border states. Therefore these states remained outside the Mauryan empire
- According to Rajatarangini, Kashmir was a part of the Mauryan empire
- Nepal was also within the Mauryan empire
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Bimbisara (546-494 BCE)
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Bimbisara (546-494 BCE) Belonged to the Haryanka dynasty Matrimonial alliances- which consolidated his position First was with the...
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Different Stages Of Colonialism
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Monopoly Trade and Plunder Colonialism The first stage had two basic objectives. First, in order to make trade more...
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Fall of the Bastille
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Although the king recognized the National Assembly, they decided to suppress it. A large number of soldiers were brought...
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Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age (10000 BCE- 6000 BCE)
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This is the transitional phase between the paleolithic and neolithic ages. Famous sites: Langhnaj in Gujarat Adamgarh in Madhya...
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Prussian-Danish War (1864-1865)
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Schleswig and Holstein were primarily populated by Germans and had been under the rule of the Danish King for...
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The Harappan Civilization
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It was first called the Indus Valley Civilization. But later it was named as the Indus Civilization. The earliest...
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Mauryan Administration Central government
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The ascendancy of the Mauryas had resulted in the triumph of monarchy in India Kautilya supported the monarchical form...
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Amending Act, 1781
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To rectify the defects of the Regulating Act of 1773, the British Parliament passed the Amending Act of 1781,...