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A Forgotten Dawn While the Western world proudly wears the badge of democracy, preaching it as a modern political ideal, ...
The Turning Point of Indian History The field of Kalinga was soaked in blood. Bodies lay strewn, families were destroyed, and ...
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Horse before petrol
For millennia, horses shaped Indian history, brought by invaders and traders who influenced empires and warfare. From Vedic chariots to Islamic mounted archers, horses transformed military strategies, ...
In a pin-drop-quiet visitors’ dressing room inside Edmonton’s Rogers Place on Thursday night, Adrian Kempe offered a reminder of just how close the Los Angeles Kings had come to finally ...
The inclusion of Buddhist and Hindu imagery on coins points to the possibility that the Indo-Greek kings followed the policies of their ... and Indo-Greek kingdoms after the fall of the Mauryan Empire ...
The historical part of the book ends at the ‘classical age’ of ancient India, and attention is specifically drawn towards the likes of Ashoka and the Mauryan empire as well as the ... no longer ...
There are few ruling titles cooler than 'King of Kings,' and Xerxes I fully embodied ... though he's quite different from his earlier counterpart. The Mauryan Emperor has two personas this time ...
Anirudh Kanisetti’s Lords of Earth and Sea: A History of the Chola Empire opens with a poignant ... makes it “a very dry and boring litany of kings and their successions, their battles and ...
The Mauryan Empire (322 BCE - 185 BCE) was the first and one of the most influential empires in the Indian subcontinent. Founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 322 BCE, it extended from present-day ...
At long last, the 650th episode (if you don't count all the other episodes) of the Empire Podcast, recorded live on Friday January 10th in front of a sell-out crowd at our spiritual home of Kings ...
MAURYAN EMPIRE The Mauryan Empire, known as one of the greatest empires ... The empire was divided into regions directly ruled by the emperor and others governed by local kings who pledged loyalty.
Manusmriti is one of the many Dharma-shastras, which started being composed around and after the Mauryan period (300 ... after the rise of the Gupta empire, and the migration of Brahmins to ...