HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Megasthenese States ‘’There was no slavery in India.” This statement must have been made because
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He moved only with the king and elites in the capital
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He work this on hearsay
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Slavery was not prevalent in India in the extreme from as he be had seen in Greece
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There was absence of slavery in India
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Provisions of the Indian Penal Code of 1861 effectively abolished slavery in British India by making the enslavement of human beings a criminal offense.
Detailed explanation-2: -Megasthenes wrote the “Indica". It included his own detailed account of how things were run in the Mauryan Empire. “Indica” describes in detail about Pataliputra, the capital of the Mauryan Empire and its prosperity. It also contains accounts about the king, his security and lifestyle.
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