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Factors that led to the Rise and Fall of the Gupta Empire.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas

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The Gupta Empire rose on a combination of material advantage, military adaptation and shrewd matrimonial diplomacy, and it fell through dynastic failure, administrative looseness and external pressure — which is why historians still argue over whether internal decay or invasion did more damage.

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  • The Material and Political Foundations of Rise
  • The Architects of Empire
  • The Anatomy of Decline
  • Dynastic Collapse and Administrative Looseness
  • External Pressure: Hunas, Vakatakas and Yashodharman
  • Feudalisation and Fiscal Exhaustion
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