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    There were several significant developments in India between 600 BCE and 600 CE. This included the growth of agricultural production, emergence of new towns, and the rise of kingdoms and empires like the Mauryan Empire. Historians have used various sources like inscriptions, texts, coins, and archaeological findings to understand the economic and political changes during this period. However, these sources are limited and do not provide the full picture of what occurred over the large span of 1500 years. Different types of evidence must be analyzed and considered to reconstruct the complex history of ancient and early medieval India.

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    There were several significant developments in India between 600 BCE and 600 CE. This included the growth of agricultural production, emergence of new towns, and the rise of kingdoms and empires like the Mauryan Empire. Historians have used various sources like inscriptions, texts, coins, and archaeological findings to understand the economic and political changes during this period. However, these sources are limited and do not provide the full picture of what occurred over the large span of 1500 years. Different types of evidence must be analyzed and considered to reconstruct the complex history of ancient and early medieval India.

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    There were several significant developments in India between 600 BCE and 600 CE. This included the growth of agricultural production, emergence of new towns, and the rise of kingdoms and empires like the Mauryan Empire. Historians have used various sources like inscriptions, texts, coins, and archaeological findings to understand the economic and political changes during this period. However, these sources are limited and do not provide the full picture of what occurred over the large span of 1500 years. Different types of evidence must be analyzed and considered to reconstruct the complex history of ancient and early medieval India.

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    Theme Two: Kings,

    Farmers
    And Towns
    “Contents”
    1. Introduction
    2. Some Developments
    3. The 6th century BCE as a turning point in Indian history
    4. Features of Mahajanapadas
    5. Factors responsible for the rise of Magadha
    6. The Mauryan Empire
    7. Asoka's Dhamma
    8. Features of Mauryan administration
    9. New notions of kingship
    10. Strategies for increasing agricultural production
    11. Differences in rural societies
    12. Land grants and new rural elites
    13. Towns and trade
    14. Coins and kings
    15. Historical evidence from inscriptions
    16. Limitations of inscriptional evidence
    There were several changes in economic and political
    life between
    600 BCE and 600 CE. There were other changes as
    well like growth in agricultural production, emergence
    of new towns,etc. Historians tried to understand these
    changes by using a variety of sources-inscriptions,
    texts, coins,etc. This is a complex process and sources
    do not tell the entire story.
    There were several developments that took place in india during
    the long span of 1500 years. They are:

    • Rig-veda was composed along the Indus and its tributaries.


    • Agricultural settlements emerged in many parts of the
    subcontinent.
    • Emergence of new mode of disposal of the dead like Megaliths
    in central and south India.
    • Emergence of new towns and kingdoms.
    4. Features of Mahajanapadas
    6. The Mauryan Empire
    • The rise of Magadha culminated in the emergence of the Mauryan
    Empire.
    • Chandragupta Maurya (c.321 BCE) was the founder of the empire who
    extended control upto Baluchistan and Afghanistan.
    • His grandson, Ashoka, the mamous ruler conquered Kalinga.

    Variety of sources to reconstruct the history of Mauryan Empire:


    The variety of sources used by the historians are:

     archaeological finds especially sculptures, Asoka's inscriptions.


     literary sources like Indica account of Magasthanese, Arthashastra of
    Kautilya, and Buddhist, Jaina and Puranic literature.
    8. Features of Mauryan administration as
    mentioned in the inscriptions
    10. Strategies for increasing agricultural
    production
    11. Differences in rural society
    15. Historicakl evidence from inscriptions
    16. Limitations of inscriptional evidences

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