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The Brihadratha dynasty (Sanskrit: बृहद्रथ; IAST: Bṛhadratha) was the first dynasty of the Magadha Empire, according to the Puranas, and was founded by Brihadratha. [ 1 ] : 129–136
Brihadratha(Sanskrit: बृहद्रथ, romanized: Bṛhadratha) was the founder of the Brihadratha dynasty, the earliest ruling dynasty of Magadha featured in Hindu literature. He established Magadha on the banks of the river Ganges , transferring the centre of power from Chedi , a neighbouring kingdom, to the newly settled Magadha.
The Maurya dynasty was the sixth and greatest ruling house of Magadha. Chandragupta Maurya founded this dynasty with help of his mentor and grand advisor Chanakya in 322 BCE after organizing a large army and overthrowing King Dhana Nanda. This dynasty lasted for 138 years, ruling Magadha from 322 to 184 BCE.
After 1837, overland travel from Britain to British India was popularised, with stopovers in Egypt gaining appeal. [3] After 1840, steam ships were used to facilitate travel on both sides of Egypt, and from the 1850s, railways were constructed along the route; the usefulness of this new route was on display during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, with 5,000 British troops having arrived through ...
Magadha was a region in ancient India, named after an ancient kingdom of the same name, which was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas during the Second Urbanization period, based in the eastern Ganges Plain. The region was ruled by several dynasties, which overshadowed and incorporated the other Mahajanapadas.
This list includes defunct and extant monarchical dynasties of sovereign and non-sovereign statuses at the national and subnational levels. Monarchical polities each ruled by a single family—that is, a dynasty, although not explicitly styled as such, like the Golden Horde and the Qara Qoyunlu—are included.
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
Some dynasties only ruled part of Egypt and existed concurrently with other dynasties based in other cities. The 7th might not have existed at all, the 10th seems to be a continuation of the 9th , and there might have been one or several Upper Egyptian Dynasties before what is termed the 1st Dynasty .