History of India: ancient and medieval / Mahajanapadas, Magadha and the Mauryas
Mauryan empire: rulers, sources and administration
Practise 2 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Arthashastra, Megasthenes' Indica, Mudrarakshasa, Buddhist and Jain traditions, inscriptions
- Chandragupta Maurya, Chanakya, Seleucus treaty, Bindusara Amitraghata and the Deccan
- King, mantriparishad, amatyas, adhyakshas; provinces at Taxila, Ujjain, Suvarnagiri, Tosali
- Pradeshika, rajuka and yukta as district-level officers; gopa and sthanika below them
- Arthashastra rules on slaves (dasa), the son of a master by a slave woman, state farms, sita land
- Decline: Brahmanical reaction, financial strain, weak successors, Pushyamitra's coup
Where to study
Themes in Indian History Part I, Class XII, Theme 2 Kings, Farmers and Towns: Early States and Economies
- Theme 2 Kings, Farmers and Towns, pp. 1-25 (printed 28-52)
- Theme 2 Kings, Farmers and Towns, 3. An Early Empire, p. 5 (printed 32)
- Theme 2 Kings, Farmers and Towns, 3. An Early Empire (Administering the empire), pp. 5-7 (printed 32-34)
- Theme 2 Kings, Farmers and Towns, 3. An Early Empire (the Arthashastra), pp. 5-8 (printed 32-35)
Our Pasts I, Class VI, ch. 7 Ashoka, the Emperor Who Gave Up War
- ch. 7 Ashoka, the Emperor Who Gave Up War, pp. 1-9 (printed 67-75)
- ch. 7 Ashoka, the Emperor Who Gave Up War, A very big kingdom = an empire, p. 1 (printed 67)
- ch. 7 Ashoka, the Emperor Who Gave Up War, Ruling the empire; The emperor and the capital city, pp. 3-4 (printed 69-70)
India’s Ancient Past · R. S. Sharma
- ch. 18 to 19
- ch. 18
- ch. 19
Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History, Volume I
- Lesson 4 Emergence of State and Empire, pp. 62-81 (printed 58-77)
- Lesson 4 Emergence of State and Empire, Sources; 4.5 Mauryan Empire, pp. 62-63 (printed 58-59)
- Lesson 4 Emergence of State and Empire, 4.5 Mauryan Empire (Chandragupta, Seleucus, Bindusara), pp. 67-68 (printed 63-64)
- Lesson 4 Emergence of State and Empire, 4.6 The Mauryan State; Provincial Administration, pp. 70-71 (printed 66-67)
- Lesson 4 Emergence of State and Empire, Provincial Administration (pradeshika, rajuka, yukta), pp. 71-72 (printed 67-68)
- Lesson 4 Emergence of State and Empire, 4.7 Economy and Society; Agriculture; Crafts and Goods, pp. 73-75 (printed 69-71)
- Lesson 4 Emergence of State and Empire, Timeline; decline of the Mauryas (Pushyamitra), pp. 78-81 (printed 74-77)
- Lesson 6 Polity and Society in Post-Mauryan Period, 6.1 Indo-Greek Relations; The Beginnings (Pushyamitra Sunga), pp. 95-97 (printed 91-93)