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 …

Gupta-Hūṇa Relations: A Study

THE north-western frontier of the Indian sub-continent throughout it's history has been an entry point for the invading armies. The first major historical invasion which resulted in the loss of territory to India was the Achaemenid invasion during the great expansion by it's king Cyrus around 535 BCE. It made inroads into our territory and …