Canberra, 16 May 2021 The Southern Peninsula of the Indian sub-continent, lying to the south of the Rivers Narmada and Mahanadi can be divided into five principal parts—Dravid, Carnatic, Telangana, Gondwana and Maharashtra. The territorial extent of each of these parts is normally defined based on the spread of the language that is spoken in […]
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FROM INDUS TO INDEPENDENCE: A TREK THROUGH INDIAN HISTORY Part 16
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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