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A rich source of the state of Indian agriculture in the early British era is a report prepared by a British engineer, Thomas Barnard, and his Indian guide, Raja Chengalvaraya Mudaliar, around 1774. This report contains data of agricultural production in about 800 villages in the area around Chennai in the years 1762 to 1766.
In fact, the institution of the Samanta was the main innovation that distinguished the post-Gupta period from the periods of ancient India. By the end of the Gupta period and by the 6th century the term Samanta came to be universally accepted as the Prince of a subjugated but reinstated tributary region.
The Later Gupta dynasty, also known as the Later Guptas of Magadha, were the rulers of Magadha and Malwa from the 6th to 8th centuries CE. The Later Guptas emerged after the disintegration of the Imperial Guptas. However, there is no evidence to connect the two dynasties and the Later Guptas may have adopted the -gupta suffix to link themselves ...
The period between the 4th and 6th centuries CE is known as the Golden Age of India because of the considerable achievements that were made in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, science, religion, and philosophy, during the Gupta Empire. [9] [10] The decimal numeral system, including the concept of zero, was invented in India during this ...
The high points of this cultural creativity is seen in Gupta architecture, sculpture and painting. [53] The Gupta period produced scholars such as Kalidasa, Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Vishnu Sharma, and Vatsyayana who made advances in a variety of academic fields. [54] Science and political administration advanced during the Gupta era.
Post-Gupta or Vardhan period of Pushyabhuti dynasty (6th century to 7th century CE): multi-room complex, statue of Kubera, broken inscription. Polished Red Ware [3] and red ware, terracotta artifacts, ivory and shell were also found. [2] Associated with the post-Gupta period include polished redware. [3]
The Arthashastra then posits its own theory that there are four necessary fields of knowledge, the Vedas, the Anvikshaki (science of reasoning), [u] the science of government and the science of economics (Varta of agriculture, cattle and trade). It is from these four that all other knowledge, wealth and human prosperity is derived.
The registration of donated land that included cultivable land, garden, residential plot were recommended by the Smritis and Puranas of the post-Gupta period and were recorded on the copper plates. [6] [8] The tradition of land grants through the history of practice took the shape of a legal form governed by the law book called Dharmaśāstra.