Political History Of Ancient India

Author(s): Hemchandra Raychaudhari
Publisher: University of Calcutta

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CHAPTER II-THE RISE OF MAGADHA
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Section 1. General Character of the Period ... , II. Republics in the Age of Bimbisāra
III. The Minor Principalities and Great Monarchies ...
... IV. Magadha Crescent-Bimbisāra ... V. Magadha Militant-Kīņika-Ajātasatru VI. Ajātasatru's Successors-The Transfer of Capital and the Fall of Avanti VII. Chronology of the Haryanka-Sisunāga
Kings . VIII. The Nandas
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CHAPTER III-The Persian AND MACEDONIAN INVASIONS Section I. The Advance of Persia to the Indus ... 239 „ II. The Last of the Achæmenids and Alexander
.... ... . ... 244
CHAPTER IV-TAE MAURYA EMPIRE : THE ERA OF
• DIGVIJAYA Section I. The Reign of Chandragupta Maurya ... 264 II. The Reign of Bindusāra -...
296 , III. The Early Years of Asoka
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CHAPTER V-TAE MAURYA EMPIRE : THE ERA OF
DHAMMAVIJAYA AND DECLINE Section I. Asoka after the Kalinga War ... ,,. II. The Later Mauryas and the Decline of
their Pover
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