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Analyse the causes of the success of the Magadhan imperialism upto the reign of Ashoka the Great.
- UPSC 2001
- Period of Mahajanapadas
Of the sixteen mahajanapadas that dotted the sixth-century-BC Gangetic landscape, only Magadha converted regional predominance into a subcontinental empire, absorbing rivals as formidable as Kosala, Avanti, and Vatsa, and the republican Vajji confederacy, before culminating in the Mauryan state under Ashoka. This was, in effect, the first successful experiment in political unification on the subcontinent…
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