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Write short essays of not more than 200 words on: The intellectual revolution in the Sixth Century B.C.

  • UPSC 1988
  • Period of Mahajanapadas

The sixth century B.C. saw the middle Gangetic plains gripped by an unprecedented ferment of ideas — a decisive turn away from Vedic ritualism toward reasoned inquiry into karma, the self, and liberation. As many as sixty-two sects are said to have arisen, carried by wandering sramanas who renounced household life and directly contested Brahmanical…

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