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The economic prosperity in the Gupta period.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas

Gupta prosperity rested less on state monopoly, as under the Mauryas, and more on the autonomy granted to self-governing guilds, merchants and artisans operating within an expanding agrarian base, a system that generated visible wealth even as its benefits were distributed unevenly across society.

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  • Agrarian Expansion and Revenue Structure
  • Craft Production and Specialised Industry
  • Guilds: The Institutional Core of the Economy
  • Trade, Coinage and Urban Prosperity
  • The Limits of Prosperity

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