-Devashree Kulkarni Imagine the time around 300 BCE, walking through the streets of Pataliputra. Merchants traded goods, assigned officials kept detailed records, soldiers always on duty to protect the empire and royal messengers travelling across territories. The reason behind organized, coordinated and thriving world stood the Mauryan Empire which was founded by Chandragupta Maurya and […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh Chandragupta Maurya founded the Mauryan Dynasty by overthrowing the erstwhile ruling house of Magadha, namely the Nanda Dynasty. The Nanda king, Dhanananda was possibly the ruler of Palibothra or Pataliputra when Alexander fought against Puru (Porus) on the banks of the river Jhelum in the Punjab. Alexander’s retum from India probably took place […]Read More
Chandragupta Maurya also known as Sandrokyptos, Sandrokottos, Androcottus by the Greeks and Latins, founded the mighty Mauryan Empire around 321 BC. This was the first biggest empire that consolidated most part of the Indian subcontinent into a single political unit. Around the year 323 BC, in an alms-giving ceremony of Dhana Nanda, the emperor of […]Read More