India's Maurya Empire, the First Aryan State

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By the Fourth Century BC, urban culture was clearly defined across the Nanda lands of India, much as it was in contemporary China. Cities were a sometimes confusing, haphazard agglomeration of isolated or block houses, with limited urban planning: covered drains are found in some places, but none in others; round refuse bins appear to have been set in open squares and streets, at least in the larger cities.