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Maurya Empire: Trade and Commerce | India | History

In this article we will discuss about the trade practices adopted by Maurya empire. The State had a special responsibility in the matter of Trade. Its revenue depended upon a profitable disposal of the vast quantities of various goods which were constantly accumulating in its hands in its factories and workshops under circumstances described. The State thus became the biggest [...]

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Gupta Rule and Its Economic Regulations | India | History

The Golden Age of the Guptas is equally characterised by a remarkable economic development of the country. This was the period of the expansion of India and of much colonizing activity towards the Farther East from Bengal, Kalinga and the Coromandal Coast. Parts of Burma and Malacca were colonised, chiefly from Kalinga and Bengal as shown in Sir A.P. Phayre's [...]

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Gupta Rule: Corporate Regulation and Industrial Life | India | History

Combined with the widespread corporate regulation of industrial life there was a very general but by no means cast iron custom for the son to follow the calling of the father. Thus it is laid down by Vishnu (III. 2) and Yaynabalkya (I. 360)that the King should enforce the observance of the respective duties of the castes, Sukra says every [...]

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