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Examine the nature and impact of India’s contacts with Central Asia during the 1st to 3rd century CE. How did these interactions influence India’s political, cultural and economic spheres?

  • UPSC 2025
  • Post-Mauryan Period

The centuries between c. 100 CE and 300 CE saw India drawn into its closest and most sustained relationship with Central Asia in the ancient period, not through episodic raids but through the Kushana empire — a single polity straddling Bactria and the Gangetic plains. This was contact of an unusually intimate kind: dynastic, commercial,…

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  • The Nature of Contact: A Ruling Dynasty of Central Asian Origin
  • Political Impact
  • Cultural Impact
  • Economic Impact

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