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1 Gupta Age and Vakatakas

What’s Inside

• Introduction

• Gupta Dynasty

• Vakatakas

INTRODUCTION

After the disintegration of the Mauryan Dynasty, which was a highly centralized empire, the Indian subcontinent was fragmented into multiple political units. Whilst in the North, the Shungas, Indo-Greeks, Shakas and Kushanas succeeded the Mauryans; in the South, the Satvahanas emerged as an important power. The Kushanas and Satvahanas gave the Indian subcontinent political stability for two centuries. By the third century CE, they were declining. The Satvahanas had introduced a problematic tendency through the land-grant tradition, which introduced ...