A field journal for

State and Society up to 1000 CE

Chapter 5 of Understanding Society: India and Beyond follows nearly two thousand years of change — from small kin-based clans to the great empires of the Mauryas, Guptas and Cholas.

You'll journey through four courts — from clans to kingdoms, the Mauryan Empire, the Gupta Empire and southern kingdoms, and the ideas that held society together — earning a stamp at each. Read the record well, and you'll finish as a certified Empire Chronicler.