Important pioneers of the Indian history - Page1

The troops of Alexander The Great knocked and entered Taxila and decide to turn back.

The Mauryan empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya which was controlling the Central, western and the eastern India that days. This empire got top of the success under the Emperor Ashoka the Great, who seized power in 272 BC. He afterwards extended his empire from Mysore to the Himalayas and form Assam to Afghanistan. In 260 BC after the destructions by unrelenting conquests in the battle of Kalinga, Ashoka converted to Buddhism.

Then he restructured his rule and started encouraging the crafts, arts as well as the architecture. Ashoka then actually started new political and social systems and visit through missionaries to Sri Lanka and Nepal in order to propagate the Buddhism.

The Greek representative Megasthenes was so impressed that he had done various recordings related to descriptions of the wealth in the capital Patliputra now known as Patna. There are many things like pillars, stupas and edicts scattered in the whole country in Sanchi, Sarnath and Mathura adds a glimpse of the enormousness of the Mauryan Empire.

Four lions sitting back to back on the top of abacus decorated with a band of designs and sentence 'Let truth alone triumph' inscripted is the seal of modern day India which is also the Emperor Ashoka's standard.

This period is known as the Classic period and in 800 AD the Southern India was dominated by various great dynasties like the Cholas, Pandyas, Chalukyas and Pallavas. The Cholas emerged in supreme and dominated South India in 850 and the Deccan plateau, Sri Lanka and parts of the Malay Peninsula.

They succeeded under King Raja Raja during 984 to 1014. The Cholas were most interested in the art and those were responsible for the various remarkable temples of Kumbakonam and Thanjavur.

Qutubuddin Aibak brought islam with the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate. At start this was the person who initiated in building many magnificent projects like the Qutub Minar also known as victory tower.

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