CHANDRAGUPTA

(Chandragupta Maurya)chändrəgoopˈtə, fl. c.321 b.c.–c.298 b.c., Indian emperor, founder of the Maurya dynasty and grandfather of Asoka. He conquered the Magadha kingdom (in modern Bihar and Jharkhand) and eventually controlled all India N of the Vindhya Hills. In c.305, Chandragupta, with a huge army, defeated Seleucus I (Nicator) who had invaded NW India in an attempt to regain Alexander the Great's Indian provinces. Seleucus had to yield parts of Afghanistan to Chandragupta, and some sort of marriage alliance followed. From Megasthenes, a Seleucid envoy at the court of Chandragupta, comes much of the information about the period. The emperor dwelt in an enormous, ornate palace at Pataliputra (Patna) and administered a highly bureaucratic government. He was advised by Kautilya (also called Chanakya), a very able but unscrupulous Brahman, to whom is attributed the Arthasastra, a guide to statecraft. Chandragupta established a vast secret service system and, fearing assassination, rarely left his palace. Jain tradition says that he abdicated his throne, became a Jain monk, and fasted to death.

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books on: Chandragupta  - 236 results

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The Cambridge Shorter History of India
Book by J. Allan, T. Wolseley Haig, H. H. Dodwell; Cambridge University Press, 1934
Subjects: India--History
...MAURYAS Chandragupta Maurya 31...89 Chandragupta II 92...Sandracottus of the Greek writers with Chandragupta Maurya. Our most valuable source is...
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India: A Short Cultural History
Book by H. G. Rawlinson; Frederick A. Praeger, 1952
Subjects: India--Civilization, India--History
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India
Book by Joe David Brown; Time, Inc., 1961
Subjects: India
...Indian political history is the emperor Chandragupta Maurya. He was a military leader in...crumbling before the Greek invaders. Chandragupta, advised by a Brahmin named Chanakya...situation to establish his own power. Chandragupta went to Alexander the Great while...
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Environmentalism and the Mass Media: The North--South Divide
Book by Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund; Routledge, 1997
...Indian military history around 500 BC thus made a profound difference to the political structure and the strategy of warfare. Chandragupta Mauryas gift of 500 elephants to Seleukos Nikator was one of the most important military aid transactions of the ancient...
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A History of India
Book by Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: India--History
...Indian military history around 500 BC thus made a profound difference to the political structure and the strategy of warfare. Chandragupta Mauryas gift of 500 elephants to Seleukos Nikator was one of the most important military aid transactions of the ancient...
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Curbing Corruption in the Republic of South Africa: Learn How New Measures Put in Place since the 1996 Constitution, Such as the Drafting of Codes of Conduct, Whistle-Blowing, and Training Initiatives, Are Making Public Officials More Aware of the Need for Ethical Conduct in Their Public Dealings
Journal article by I.W. Ferreira, M.S. Bayat; The Public Manager, Vol. 34, 2005
Subjects: Corruption--Social aspects, Public service commissions--Services
...about corruption; it has been around for a long time. As far back as 300 B.C., Katilya, the then Prime Minister and Emperor Chandragupta of India, identified forty ways of embezzlement of funds by employees in the private sector, and he had this to say about...
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Indian Traditions & the Western Imagination
Journal article by Amartya Sen; Daedalus, Vol. 134, 2005
Subjects: Book publishing--Reports, Oxford University Press--Reports, Traditionalism vs. modernity--Analysis
...Strabo, and Arrian. Megasthenes had ample opportunity to observe India since, as the envoy of Seleucus Nicator to the court of Chandragupta Maurya, he spent nearly a decade (between 302 and 291 B.C.) in Pataliputra (the site of modern Patna), the capital city of...
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Context, Content, and Composition: Questions of Intended Meaning and the Asokan Edicts
Journal article by Namita Sugandhi; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 42, 2003
Subjects: Asoka, King of Magadha--Research, Deccan (India)--History, Deccan (India)--Research, Inscriptions--Research
...general details about this dynasty are well known and seldom disputed. As legend has it, the first of the Mauryan kings, Chandragupta Maurya, came to power in the state (janapada) of Magadha in the Ganga Valley in the fourth century B.C., supposedly with...
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Early India from the Origins to A.D. 1300
Journal article by Ludo Rocher; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Early India from the Origins to A.D. 1300 (Book)--Book reviews
...chapter titles above; see also the two chronological tables, pp. xiii-xv and 1966: 337-39). There is no longer any date for Chandragupta IIs campaign against the Shakas (p. 285), which "took place between A.D. 388-409" (1966: 139). The fact that the Pallava...
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Imperial Democratization: Rhetoric and Reality
Journal article by Glenn E. Perry; Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 28, 2006
Subjects: Bush, George W.--Political activity, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace--Social aspects, Chomsky, Noam--Political aspects, Democratization--Political aspects, Philosophers--Political aspects, United States. Department of State--Political aspects
...recognized and even advocated by classic political thinkers. Thus the fourth-century B.C., Chanakya Kautilya, counselor to King Chandragupta Maurya and one of the earliest writers elucidating "realism" in foreign policy, advised rulers "to wear a mask, say, of religious...
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An Empire Builder - Seleukos Nikator
Magazine article by John Grainger; History Today, Vol. 43, May 1993
Subjects: Asia Minor--History, Biography--To 500, Kings and rulers--Biography, Seleukos--Biography
...united into a great empire, ruled by Chandragupta Maurya. He had conquered all north...Paropamisadai in particular -- which provided Chandragupta with a defensive bastion against any...given 500 trained war elephants. Chandragupta could spare these animals, for he had...
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Better Than Bollywood: It's a Hot Summer for India's Film Industry, but Salil Tripathi Prefers a Film-Maker Who Favours Reality over Schmaltz
Magazine article by Salil Tripathi; New Statesman, Vol. 131, June 3, 2002
Subjects: Filmmakers--Achievements and awards, Motion picture industry--India, Ray, Satyajit--Achievements and awards
...of talented people - the editor Dulal Dutta, the cinematographers Subrata Mitra and Soumendu Roy, the art director Bansi Chandragupta and, in his early years, Ravi Shankaras composer-Ray himself did far more than write the screenplay and direct the film...
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What the UN Can Do to Promote Non-Formal Education
Magazine article by Ramji Raghavan; UN Chronicle, Vol. 43, September 2006
Subjects: Alternative education--Forecasts and trends, United Nations--Education policy
...stratagem of weakening the enemys outlying forces before taking the centre, climaxing in the great Mauryan Empire of his protege Chandragupta. Inspiring examples like these highlight the need to shift the focus of education away from rote-based learning toward skills...
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India's Missing Historians: Mihir Bose Discusses the Paradox That India, a Land of History, Has a Surprisingly Weak Tradition of Historiography
Magazine article by Mihir Bose; History Today, Vol. 57, September 2007
Subjects: Historians--Evaluation, Historians--Records and correspondence, India--History, India--Social aspects, Indian history--Evaluation, Indian history--Portrayals
...Alexander the Greats campaign to India; Megasthenes, the Greek historian who in c. 300 BC was ambassador to the court of Chandragupta Maurya and collected material there for his work Indica; Ptolemys Geographia; and the Chinese travellers Faxian and Xuanzang...


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Defense Chiefs Eye Ancient Tome for Advantages in War; Strategist's Book Has Night-Vision Tip
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 6, 2002
...and some other animals could endow soldiers with night vision. Kautilya, who was a prime minister in the court of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya in 4th century B.C. was well known as a military strategist. In his book, he said that a ruler could use any means...
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Teaching Music in Bombay
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 2, 2009
Subjects: Chaudhuri, Amit--Criticism and interpretation, Teachers--Study and teaching
...Chesterton, their knowledge of Indian history restricted to the memorization of dates of conquests and kingdoms, Ashoka and Chandragupta, Akbar and Shahjahan - an education of mere rote - Nirmalya immerses himself in the prophetic poetry of Meera, Tulsidas...


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encyclopedia articles on: Chandragupta  - 11 results

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Chandragupta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHANDRAGUPTA (Chandragupta Maurya)chandr goop t , fl. c.321 b.c. c.298 b.c., Indian emperor...eventually controlled all India N of the Vindhya Hills. In c.305, Chandragupta, with a huge army, defeated Seleucus I (Nicator) who had invaded...
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Chandragupta I and II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHANDRAGUPTA I AND II Indian emperors. See Gupta . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Maurya
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MAURYA mou ry , ancient Indian dynasty, c.325 c.183 b.c., founded by Chandragupta (Chandragupta Maurya). He conquered the Magadha kingdom and established his capital at Pataliputra (now Patna). His son...
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Sandrocottus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SANDROCOTTUS see Chandragupta . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Gupta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...mathematics. The dynasty was founded by Chandragupta I (reigned c.320 c.330), who married...The third and greatest of the Guptas, Chandragupta II (reigned c.380 c.414), further expanded...and Kalidasa wrote his dramas. Chandragupta IIs successors were Kumaragupta (reigned...
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