pyq/2019/history-optional-i/4

(a) Explain how Ashoka used religion as a tool of political aggrandizement ? (15 marks)

(b) Do you agree that the system of land grants from the Gupta-Vakataka period was connected with the decentralisation of state in any way ? (20 marks)

(c) The discovery of monsoons by Hippalus gave a new direction to Indo-Roman trade during the Satavahana period. Comment. (15 marks)