Foreign Threats
By: Ryan MacDonald
College Board Themes
State Building, Expansion & Conflict; Political structures, Empires, Nations, Nationalism, Revolts and Revolutions. This relates to the topic of Foreign Threats because Post-classical India was attacked causing lots of conflict.
State Building, Expansion & Conflict; Political structures, Empires, Nations, Nationalism, Revolts and Revolutions. This relates to the topic of Foreign Threats because Post-classical India was attacked causing lots of conflict.
Islamic and Hindu Kingdoms
- The Gupta dynasty was threatened by nomadic invaders.
- Nomadic Invaders from central Asia invaded India and disrupted the Gupta administration.
- The Gupta state collapsed and the authority was then shifted to the invaders, allies of the Guptas and independent regional brokers.
- This continued until the "Mughals" expanded their empire and took a part of India.
- Chola rulers did not make a centralized state.
Vijayanagar
- Based in the Northern part of the Deccan,
- The Sultans of Delhi extended their authority to southern India essentially creating the kingdom.
- The dominant state in southern India for almost a 100 years.
- Muslim merchants traded unmolested in the ports of India.
Quest for Centralized Imperial Rule
- After the fall of the Gupta empire, the North's politics became chaotic and the local states competed for power over the land.
- The Northern states were in many wars over the land.
- Nomadic people caused severe disruption in the North.
- Trade was a large part in this.