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What was the impact of trans-regional and trans-continental trade in the post Mauryan period on social and cultural life of India?

  • UPSC 2018
  • Post-Mauryan Period

The centuries c. 200 BCE–300 CE saw the subcontinent knit into overland and maritime networks stretching from the Chinese Silk Route to the Roman Mediterranean and Southeast Asia. This was not merely an economic phenomenon — the wealth, peoples, and ideas that moved along these routes reshaped who counted as socially significant in India and…

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  • A New Social Class: Merchants, Guilds, and Urban Wealth
  • Absorption of Foreigners into Indian Society
  • Trade, Religious Patronage, and the Spread of Buddhism
  • Artistic Syncretism Funded by Trade Wealth
  • Material, Culinary, and Numismatic Exchange

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