Climatic Factors in the Gupta Decline & After

"̍..[a] history whose passage is almost imperceptible, that of a man in his relationship to the environment, a history in which all change is slow, a history of constant repetition, ever recurring cycles.." ~ Braudel, as quoted in Jha, 2014: 588 Decline of an empire is never a linear process and involves complex to and …