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(Online Course) CAPF Assistant Commandant: History - The Mauryan Empire

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History : The Mauryan Empire

The Mauryan empire was the first and one of the greatest empires that were established on the Indian soil. The growth of Magadha culmi nated in the emergence, of the Mauryan Empire. Chandragupta Maurya, who founded the empire (321 BCE), extended control as far northwest as Afghanistan and Baluchistan, and his grandson Ashoka, arguably the most famous ruler of early India, conquered Kalinga (present-day coastal Orissa). Chandragupta Maurya was the first ruler who unified entire India under one political unit.

King

Length of reign years

  Date BC

Chandragupta

 24

 321 -297

Bindusara

25

 297- 272

Ashoka

44

272- 228

Dasaratha

8

228 -220

Samprati

9

220 -211

Salisuka

13

211 -198

Devavarman

 7 

198 -191

Bhrihadratha

 8

 191 - 183


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