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A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India according to the syllabus prescribed by the Calcutta University

1913

The Country.-.-India is waS lled off from the rest of Asia by the Himalayap ranges in the north and the chief parts of the Eastern and Western sides are washed by the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. [...] The whole of Northern India from East Behar to the Punjab now owned the supremacy of Magadha and the ancient races of whom we have spoken in the last chapter — the Kurus the Panihalas the Kosalas the Videhas. [...] hest of all kinds of charity ; the twelfth proclaimed the principle of universal toleration and moral persuasion as the best means of converting unbelievers ; the thirteenth mentioned the conquest of Kalinga and the names of five Greek Kirigs to whose kingdoms Buddhist missionaries were sent ; and the fourteenth summed up the foregoing with some remarks on the engraving of the edicts. [...] Their substance is given below :- The first directed the ministers of religion to work with zeal ; the second explained religion to be mercy charity truth and purity : the third inculcated self-questioning and the avoidance of sins ; the fourth entrusted the religious instruction of the people to a class of officers called Rajukas ; the fifth prohibited the slaughter of various animals ; the six [...] To know the history of Indic from the time of Asoka the Great to the time of Vikramaditya the Great.we must remember the names of the.five dynasties who ruled in the continent of India —vis.r the Mauryas the Sungas the Kanvas the Andhras and the Guptas.
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Pages
238
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143798
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Frontmatter
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Chapter I. Aryan Settlements in the Punjab B. C. 2000 to 1400
1-6 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter II. Aryan Settlemsnts in Northern India .B. C. 2000 to 1000
7-10 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter III. Hindu Expansion Over India.B. C. 2000 to 320
11-21 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter IV. Ascendency of Maoadha .B. C. 320 to 500
22-31 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter V. Ujjayini and Kanouj : Rise of this Rajputs the Minor Kingdomes. B. C. 500 to 1200
32-45 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter VI. Mahomicdan Invasions and Conquxnts. A. D. 711 to 1208.
46-52 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter VII. Pathan Kings A. D. 1206 to 1526
53-71 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter VIII. Rise of Mogul Power. A. D. 1626 to 1605
72-91 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter IX. Mogul Ascnndency. A. D. 1605 to 1707.
92-112 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter X. Decline of Mogul Power. A. D. 1707 to 1761
113-123 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter XI. Rise of British Power. A.D. 744 to 1772
124-143 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter XII. Ascendency of British Power. A. D. 1772 to 1805
144-166 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter XIII. Consolidarion of British Power. A. D. 1805 to 1835
167-181 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter XIV. India Under One Power. A. D. 1835 to 1858
182-197 Romesh Dutt view
Chapter XV. India Under the Crown. From 1858
198-224 Romesh Dutt view
Index
225-231 Romesh Dutt view

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