Canberra, 12 December 2014 The Chalukya kings left copious records regarding most aspects of their rule, leaving some areas of the administrative procedure only partially explained, which makes the historian’s analytical work a slightly more difficult. Even so, sufficient information can be culled and corroborated from different sources to bring out a sufficiently clear picture […]
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FROM INDUS TO INDEPENDENCE: A TREK THROUGH INDIAN HISTORY: Part 20
November 28, 2013 
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Singapore, 28 November 2013 THE CONCEPT OF STATE AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN ANCIENT INDIA Section I Statecraft and the Concept of Kingship Early political thought developed in India almost independent of any external influence. There is a distinct difference between the political thought that developed in the Indian sub-continent over the years and the one […]
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May 20, 2013 0 Comments
Canberra, 20 May 2013 THE GLORY OF THE MAURYAS Section IV Kautilya and the Arthashastra Kautilya: A King’s Mentor Kautilya, also called Chanakya, is often maligned as a teacher of unethical and even immoral behaviour in statecraft by a number of historians, analysts and commentators. Perhaps no other assessment could be as biased and farther […]
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April 12, 2013 2 Comments
Jakarta, 12 April 2013 THE GLORY OF THE MAURYAS Section I The Beginnings Between the years 321 and 185 BC three generations of a dynasty carved out the first pan-Indian empire—the Mauryas. This empire covered an area of 5,000,000 square kilometres and comprised almost the entire sub-continent, and had an estimated population of 50-60 million […]
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