In this article we will discuss about the history of ancient India. The greatest handicap in the treatment of the history of ancient India, both political and cultural, is the absence of a definite chronology. The dates of political events and the vast mass of literature which normally form the basis of any cultural study are but imperfectly known and [...]
In the sixth century B.C., we find a large number of states in northern India and many of these were not ruled by kings but formed petty republics or oligarchies. That was the age of the Buddha and therefore, the republican states of this period have been called 'Republics of the age of the Buddha'. These were the most ancient [...]
In this article we will discuss about provincial administration in ancient India. In ancient India big empires were divided into provinces and districts for the sake of administrative convenience, while small kingdoms like Pallavas, Vakatakas and Gahadawalas had only one type of division viz. the districts known by different names like vishaya or rashtra. The provincial administration during the times [...]