The Kushans: " From Pastorals to Emperors"
The period after the decline of the Mauryans is considered as the dark phase of the Indian History. This is basically because of the lot of works and lot of variations taking place simultaneously. We find a lot of foreign empires taking hold of the subcontinent be it the Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Pahlavas, Kushanas or the Sassanians. The invasion of the foreign powers into the subcontinent brought different aspect to the social and material culture of the people. Also the foreign trade of the subcontinent with the outer world was flourishing at this time (especially under the Kushanas who got hold of the Silk Route) which had made the economy to boom at that time which can be clearly judged from the purity of the gold coins which were being issued by the Kushanas; and that its primarily the main reason why the Marxist school of Historians considered the age particularly under Kushanas to be the "Golden Age of the Indian History". However, this belief has always been challenged by t...