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1 Post-Mauryan Dynasties

What’s Inside

• Introduction

• Sangam Age and Polities

• Shunga Dynasty

• Indo-Greeks or Bactrians

• Shakas

• Kushanas

• Satavahanas

• Economic Condition of the Post-Mauryan Age

• Art and Architecture

INTRODUCTION

The Mauryan dynasty was ended by Pushyamitra Shunga, who killed Brihadratha. The Shunga dynasty became the successor of the Mauryas, but only in North India. The decline of the Mauryans was followed by political fragmentation; and none of its successor, not even the Guptas reached to the territorial extent of the Mauryans. Whilst, the Shungas succeeded in the North and Eastern India, the Indo-Greeks emerged ...