The Successors of the Mauryas: A Political History Based on Coins and Inscriptions

Authors (s): Prashant Srivastava (Author)
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9788173201738
Pages: 248p., 103 Black and White; Plates.
Pub. date: 03.02.2017, 1st. ed.
Publisher: Agam Kala Prakashan
Language (s): English
Bagchee ID: BB106330
List price: US $ 66,00
Bagchee price: US $ 59,40

The work is meant, primarily, for undergraduate and postgraduate students, who have offered courses in ancient Indian numismatics and epigraphy. Teacher and student, alike, often find is difficultto locate coins and inscriptions, in their true the historical perspective, without some knowledge of the political history of the period of their issue. Unfortunately, in the present day scenario ofhistory writing, where political history has lost ground to socio-economic history, there are few up-to-date works, dealing with the political history of the successors of the Mauryas, up to c 319AD.

The present work is divided into seven chapters, and has three appendices. Chapter 1 is introductory in nature, Chapter 2 deals with the history of the Sungas, Kanvas, and their successors,Chapter III, with that of the Mahameghavahanas of Kalinga, the Satavahanas, and their succesors, Chapter 4 of the Indo-Greeks, Chapter 5 of the Saka-Pahlavas, and other rulers of Saka extraction,mainly the Western Kshatarapas, Chapter VI, of the Kushana Kings, and their successors, and Chapter VII, Of the two predecessors of Chandragupta I.

Appendix 1 presents a brief account of the three major Tamil powers-the Cholas, Pandyas, and Cheras, as also the Tondaiyar and Pallavas, who cannot technically be called the succssors of theMauryas, but played an important role in the history of the period. The general features of the coins of significant successors of the Mauryas, and a brief introduction of the significant epigraphsof the period, have been dealt with in Appendices 2 and 3, respectively. This is followed by a Select bibliography.

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