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‘The Gupta period stands at the centre of Indian history. Discuss the development of arts and literature in that Gupta period in the light of this statement.

  • UPSC 1985
  • Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas

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To call the Gupta age "central" is to claim more than that it falls chronologically midway between the ancient and medieval worlds. It is to argue that the diverse artistic and literary idioms bequeathed by the Mauryas, the Sungas, the Kushanas and the Satavahanas were, in the fourth to sixth centuries CE, fused into a…

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  • Literature: Sanskrit's Classical Ascendancy
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