Political forms of Ancient India The Indian sub-continent was the home of one of the earliest civilizations of man. In the history of ancient India we see many forms of society ranging from urban civilization of Indus Valley to the Classical Age of Gupta Dynasty. During this period we see a hierarchy of centralized and decentralized government. Some of which were highly organized in their political structure and government while others were merely weakened by …showed first 75 words of 1788 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1788 total…incapability of expanding their territory. However, the Indian history incarnation of centralized form of government during the period of Mauryan empire. Sunga empire, again, failed to succeed and did not reach up to the level of Mauryan empire due to division of power. Finally, the Gupta empire took the Indian civilization to the Classical Age which proved a successful and victorious empire. Thus, we see a cycle of successful empire during the Indian history civilizaion.