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India As a series of Article   Article II – Mauryan Empire                                                  Last article summarised the great intellectual millennium that started with the arrival of Aryans and Sanskrit. However, this article focussed on the first great empire of India and making of India as we know it today. In 322 BC, Chandragupta Maurya, aged 20, forced the current Nanda ruler, Dhana Nanda to resign and took over the control of Nanda dynasty and established the Mauryan dynasty. The Victory of Chandragupta mainly belongs to Chanakya, the clever advisor he had. Dhana Nanda was not popular among the peasant, he was despot and corrupt and public loathe him. His problems were compounded when foreign invasion by Alexander the Great happened. Chanakya took advantage of the situation and sided with Alexander and won some parts of Sind. However, once Alexander returned, he aroused nationalistic feelings and commanded an army of petty commanders and kings and def

India as a series of articles Article I - India of Time of Harappan Civilisation I just finished reading Discovery of India , written by our beloved and first Honourable Prime Minister of Republic of India, Jawaharlal Nehru . The book shows his passion for India. He discovered its richness from ancient Harappan Civilisation to intellectually struggling medieval age and, in detail, to England’s enslaved India. The book begins with ancient India, mainly Harappan Civilisation. It mentions all the available information about the civilisation at the time beautifully wrapped in author’s Indian pride, who thinks that English gave us this opportunity to understand our past and also responsible for the slower growth in its glorious unearthing. Harappan Civilisation is the place where our ancestors saw the seed of our culture, one that can still be felt in contemporary times like worshipping of Lord Shiva and goddess deities. Harappan civilisation was mainly an agrarian society ha