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Review critically the evolution of different schools of art in the Indian subcontinent between the second century BCE and the third century CE, and evaluate the socio-religious factors responsible for it.
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- Post-Mauryan Period
Between the second century BCE and the third century CE, Indian art moved from a symbolic, aniconic idiom to a mature, image-centred visual language, expressed through several regionally distinct schools. This was not a single linear development but a layered evolution — an early stupa-relief tradition giving rise, almost simultaneously, to two very different image-making…
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- Stage One: The Aniconic Foundations at Bharhut and Sanchi
- Stage Two: Gandhara and Mathura — Parallel, Not Sequential, Emergence
- Stage Three: Amaravati and the Deccan Tradition
- Socio-Religious Factors Behind the Evolution
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