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Delineate the nature and impact of India’s contact with Western Asia and the Mediterranean world during the Mauryan period.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Mauryan Empire

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The Mauryan period marks the first sustained, documented encounter between an Indian state and the Hellenistic Mediterranean world, triggered by Alexander's withdrawal from the northwest and consolidated by the Chandragupta-Seleucus settlement of 305 BCE. This was not one relationship but several running in parallel — diplomatic, matrimonial, commercial, and missionary — each leaving a distinct…

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  • The Chandragupta-Seleucus Settlement: Treaty, Marriage, and Elephants
  • Bindusara and the Hellenistic Courts
  • Ashoka's Dhamma-Vijaya: Missions to Five Hellenistic Kings
  • Trade Across Land and Sea
  • Persian and Achaemenid Residues
  • Greek and Hellenistic Impacts
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