INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Chandragupta overthrew the Nanda dynasty and then ascended to the throne of the Magadha kingdom, in present-day Bihar state, India, about 325 BCE. Alexander the Great died in 323, leaving Chandragupta to win the Punjab region about 322.

Detailed explanation-2: -He was the youngest son of Mahapadma Nanda. Chandragupta Maurya raised an army that eventually conquered the Nanda capital Pataliputra and defeated him. This defeat marked the fall of the Nanda Empire and the birth of the Maurya Empire.

Detailed explanation-3: -Complete answer: Chandragupta Maurya, with the assistance of a canny and politically keen Brahmin, Kautilya usurped the seat by crushing Dhana Nanda in 321 BC. Nanda tradition, a family that governed Magadha, in northern India, between c. 343 and 321 BCE.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chanakya helped Chandragupta against the Nandas. Chanakya was insulted and humiliated by the Nanda king Dhanananda. Chanakya better known as Kaufilya trained Chandragupta a young man of the Maurya family in statecraft and warfare to avenge his humiliation.

Detailed explanation-5: -Chandragupta Maurya raised an army, with the assistance of Chanakya, the author of Arthashastra and his teacher, and overthrew the Nanda Empire, in c. 322 BCE thus laying the foundation for the Maurya Empire.