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Write a short essay on: “Skandagupta’s war with the Hunas”

  • UPSC 1997
  • Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas

Skandagupta's reign (c. 455–467 CE) is remembered less for territorial expansion than for a defensive achievement: holding the north-western frontier against the first serious wave of Huna pressure at a moment when the empire had barely absorbed an earlier internal shock, and paying for that success with a fiscal strain that the dynasty never fully…

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  • The Succession Crisis and the Pushyamitra Threat
  • The Huna Invasion
  • Victory, Title, and Its Political Uses
  • Epigraphic and Numismatic Evidence
  • Costs, Aftermath, and Long-Term Significance

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