Canberra, 20 January 2014 Samudra Gupta the Great (335-375 A.D.) Samudra Gupta, the fourth king of the Gupta dynasty, ushered in the Golden Age of ancient India and could be considered the greatest amongst the Gupta emperors. [His successor, Chandra Gupta II also known as Vikramaditya, after whom the Indian Navy’s third aircraft carrier is […]
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FROM INDUS TO INDEPENDENCE: A TREK THROUGH INDIAN HISTORY Part 16
September 15, 2013 
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Canberra, 15 September 2013 THE AGE OF DIFFUSION AND DISINTEGRATION (~ 200 B.C. to 300 A.D.) In early 2nd century B.C. the pan-Indian authority that ruled the sub-continent from its elaborate base at Pataliputra in Magadha came to an end; this also marked the end of the experiment in imposing a centrally controlled imperial government […]
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