History of India: ancient and medieval / Post-Mauryan India and the Sangam age
Crafts, guilds and trade (200 BCE to 300 CE)
Practise 1 PYQConcepts to cover
- Guilds (shreni): fixed wages, rules, standards and prices; judicial powers over members; banking role; not state-registered
- Indo-Roman trade: Periplus, monsoon route, Arikamedu, Roman coin hoards, spices, textiles, Bharuch and Sopara
- Silk Route linkages, Taxila, Mathura, Ujjain; peak of ancient urbanisation
- Dynastic coinage: Indo-Greek portraits, Kushana gold, Satavahana lead; monetisation