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Mauryan military campaigns and frontier policy (c. 321–261 BCE)

Mauryan military campaigns and frontier policy (c. 321–261 BCE)

  1. Mauryan control expands into Punjab frontier zone

    Labels: Chandragupta, Punjab, Indus region

  2. Chandragupta begins Mauryan consolidation

    Labels: Chandragupta, Mauryan state, Pataliputra

  3. Overthrow of the Nanda regime in Magadha

    Labels: Nanda dynasty, Pataliputra, Chandragupta

  4. Seleucus crosses Indus, frontier war begins

    Labels: Seleucus I, Indus region, Seleucid Mauryan

  5. Seleucid–Mauryan settlement: elephants for borderlands

    Labels: Seleucus I, Chandragupta, Diplomatic settlement

  6. Megasthenes serves at Mauryan court

    Labels: Megasthenes, Pataliputra, Mauryan court

  7. Bindusara succeeds; frontier stability maintained

    Labels: Bindusara, Mauryan Empire, northwest frontier

  8. Bindusara campaigns toward the Deccan frontier

    Labels: Bindusara, Deccan campaign, Amitrochates

  9. Antiochus I sends Deimachus to Bindusara

    Labels: Antiochus I, Deimachus, Bindusara

  10. Bindusara dies; succession struggle begins

    Labels: Bindusara, Succession crisis, Mauryan elite

  11. Ashoka becomes emperor after succession conflict

    Labels: Ashoka, Succession, Mauryan policy

  12. Kalinga War marks end of early expansion phase

    Labels: Kalinga War, Ashoka, Kalinga