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Examine the relationship among the economic growth, ‘urbanization and state formation from c. 7th century BCE to 3rd century BCE.
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- Period of Mahajanapadas
Between the 7th century BCE, when the sixteen mahajanapadas first crystallized in the middle Gangetic basin, and the 3rd century BCE, when the Mauryan Empire brought that region under a single imperial umbrella, three processes — an agrarian surplus economy, town-based urbanism, and the territorial state — grew up not as separate developments but as…
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- Agrarian Surplus as the Shared Foundation
- From Surplus to Political Power
- Urbanization as the Meeting Point
- The Reinforcing Circuits: Trade, Coinage and Writing
- Culmination under the Mauryas
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