Ideas and Movements in The Age of The Mauryas: With Special Reference to Pali and Ardhamagadhi Source

The Mauryan Age is seminal period in the political and socio-cultural life of the people of India. It was characterized by the rise of imperial power to an unprecedented level, the blossoming of culture and arts, the growth of economy and brisk contacts with lands and people beyond its geographical frontiers. It is to this age that the term ‘Classical’ is appropriately applicable, and with sufficient good reason, in so far as it has served India as an exemplar of political integration and moral regeneration. A study of the Age presents the students of History a variety of problems which are as complex as they are important. With a view to monograph seeks to examine as to how the intellectual and culture movements of the Age were mutually interconnected as also with the development of a specific imperial structure.