27 Facts About Classical India

Middle kingdoms of India were the political entities in the Indian subcontinent from 200 BCE to 1200 CE.

From 1 CE until 1000 CE, Classical India's economy is estimated to have been the largest in the world, having between one-third and one-quarter of the world's wealth.

The Greeks in Classical India were eventually divided from the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom centered in Bactria.

The first Saka king in Classical India was Maues or Moga who established Saka power in Gandhara and gradually extended supremacy over north-western Classical India.

Indo-Scythian rule in Classical India ended with the last of the Western Satraps, Rudrasimha III, in 395 CE.

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The Scythian groups that invaded Classical India and set up various kingdoms, included, besides the Sakas, other allied tribes, such as the Medes, Scythians, Massagetae, Getae, Parama Kamboja Kingdom, Avars, Bahlikas, Rishikas and Parada Kingdom.

Nevertheless, much of the Deccan and southern Classical India were largely unaffected by this state of flux in the north.

Classical India was succeeded by his son Dharasena II, who used the title of Mahadhiraja.

Classical India came to power in 750 CE in Gaur by a democratic election.

Classical India reigned from 750 to 770 CE and consolidated his position by extending his control over all of Bengal.

Classical India's empire stretched from Assam and Utkala in the east, Kamboja in the north-west and Deccan in the south.

Classical India recovered control over all of Bengal and expanded the empire.

Classical India survived the invasions of Rajendra Chola and the Chalukyas.

Classical India crushed the Varendra rebellion and extended his empire farther to Kamarupa, Odisha and Northern India.

Classical India was a religious person and a patron of art and literature.

Classical India is credited for having built the famous Jagannath Temple of Puri in Odisha.

The rulers of Eastern Ganga dynasty not only defended their kingdom from the constant attacks of the Muslim rulers from both northern and southern Classical India but were perhaps one of the few empires to have successfully invaded and defeated their Muslim adversaries.

Peninsular Classical India was involved in an 8th-century tripartite power struggle among the Chalukyas, the Pallavas of Kanchipuram, and the Pandyas.

Interdynastic rivalry and seasonal raids into each other's territory notwithstanding, the rulers in the Deccan and South Classical India patronized all three religions - Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

One of his successors, Kakusthavarma was a powerful ruler and even the kings of imperial Gupta Dynasty of northern Classical India cultivated marital relationships with his family, giving a fair indication of the sovereign nature of their kingdom.

Classical India thus avenged the earlier humiliation of the Chalukyas by the Pallavas and engraved a Kannada inscription on the victory pillar at the Kailasanatha Temple.

Classical India later overran the other traditional kingdoms of Tamil country, the Pandyas, Cholas and Keralas in addition to subduing a Kalabhra ruler.

Classical India timed his rebellion to coincide with the confusion caused by the invading Paramara of Central India to the Rashtrakutas capital in 973.

Classical India's fifty-year reign was an important period in Karnataka's history and is referred to as the "Chalukya Vikrama era".

Classical India's rule was cut short by his assassination in 1167 and the ensuing civil war caused by his sons fighting over the throne ended the dynasty as the last Chalukya scion regained control of Kalyani.

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Kalachuri is the name used by two kingdoms who had a succession of dynasties from the 10th-12th centuries, one ruling over areas in Central Classical India and were called Chedi or Haihaya and the other southern Kalachuri who ruled over parts of Karnataka.

Classical India defeated Mahipala, the king of the Bengal, and to commemorate his victory he built a new capital and named it Gangaikonda Cholapuram.