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The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s5.1

The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s5.1

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c7.s5.1

We may now commence our survey of the more well-known among the leading royal or imperial polities of the Hindus about which precise historical dates and factual details are available. The first in chronological order happens also to be the most extensive of the Hindu Empire-systems. This was the Maurya Empire¹¹ (B.C. 322-185). It embraced modern Afghanistan, the whole of Upper India, the Deccan and Southern India excluding, however, the extreme south (Chola, Pāṇḍya, Kerala, Satyaputra and Ceylon).