Mahajanapadas
Introduction Mahajanapadas meaning "Great Kingdoms" (from Maha, "great," and Janapada "foothold of a tribe," "country") Before and during...
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Chola Art & Architecture
Introduction Like many great civilisations, the roots of the Chola, a Tamil Hindu dynasty in southern India, are hidden in the temporal...
Varna System
The protagonists of chaturvarnya do not seem to have considered what is to happen to women in their system. Are they also to be divided...
Vedas
Introduction The Vedas are widely regarded as the earliest literary record of Indo-Aryan culture and India's most revered texts. They are...
Hampi
Introduction Vijayanagara, which means "city of victory," was both a city and an empire. In the fourteenth century, the empire was...
Schools of Indian Philosophy
Introduction: After the state and the Varna divided social order were firmly established, ancient thinkers believed that an individual...
Indian Sculpture Schools
Indians Sculptures are artistic expressions that reflect cultural characteristics. The Indian subcontinent has a long history of...
Developments Of Crafts In India
History And Background According to archaeological evidence and literature, textile creation is an early Indian art form that predates...
Astronomy In Ancient India
Astronomy developed concurrently with mathematics as a complement to religious obsessions in the past. Both met the requirements of...
Mathematics In India
Aryabhatta: The Great Mathematician Aryabhatta wrote the Aryabhatiya, a 121-verse manuscript (476-529 A.D.). He invented methods for...
The Bhakti Sects: Bhagvatism, Vaishnavism & Shaivism
Bhagvatism Bhagvatism was founded on Vasudeva Krishna's worship. He is recognised as having founded Bhagwatism. Krishna makes his first...
Jainism: An Introduction
History & Background Jains were historically referred to as Sramanes. While Jainism makes no claim to a single founder, the Jain holy...
The Expansion Of Buddhism
In Theravada Buddhism, three collections of works are regarded as sacred scripture, collectively referred to as the "Three Baskets"...
Buddhism: An Introduction
History and Background The early stages of Buddhism were mostly limited to India and are commonly referred to as Theravada Buddhism....
Southern Dynasties: Literature, Features & Philosophy
The Emergence of Tamil Literature Tamil literature began to emerge during the Sangam Period. By the third century B.C., Tamil had...
Gupta Empire
The Gupta Empire ruled India between the early fourth and late sixth centuries CE. It ruled a large portion of the Indian subcontinent...
Administration and Economy Of Mauryan Empire
What were the factors that contributed to the decline of Mauryas? The commanders of Ashoka were given control of large swaths of lands....
The Mahajanpadas & The Mauryan Empire
THE SIXTEEN MAHAJANAPADAS In Indian history, the sixth century B.C. is regarded as a turning point. The formation of early governments...
Vedic Period: Society, Economy & Religion
The Rigvedic Society The society was male dominant, where the father was the family's head and was known as 'grihapati and dampati....
The Indus Valley Civilisation
The Indus valley civilisation was first discovered in 1921 in Harappa, Punjab, and again in 1922 in Mohenjodaro, Sindh, near the Indus...
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