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Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India (2/e)
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9780230633803
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MACMILLAN INDIA LIMITED
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Encyclopaedias & Reference Works
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Paperback
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Pages
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348
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Year
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2007
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The author surveys theories of social change and underlines the key role of production techniques together with climatic conditions in shaping ancient social formations. Several questions are raised: What was the extent of cattle pastoralism in early Vedic times and how was it linked with tribalism and booty capture? Why could the later Vedic people not develop a full-fledged state and class system? What part did iron play in war and production in northern India? Why did Buddhism appear around 600 BC and why did this happen in the middle Gangetic plains? How many forms of society are reflected in the epics? Rural relics of ancient life and its glimpses in terracottas are also discussed. To tackle these problems, Vedic, epic and Buddhist texts are examined in the light of material remains, tribal studies and archaic social survivals.
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Author Biography
R S Sharma is Emeritus Professor of History, Patna University. He is the founder Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research. His present book was translated into Russian in 1987.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Problems of Social Formations in Early India 2. Forms of Property and Subsistence in the Early Portions of Rgveda 3. Booty Capture, Distribution and Differentiation in Rigvedic Society 4. The Later Vedic Phase and the Painted Grey Ware Culture 5. Material Setting and Social Formations in the Indo-Gangetic Divide and Upper Gangetic basin (c. 1000-500 BC) 6. Productive Forces and their Social Implications in the Age of the Buddha in the Middle Gangetic Basin 7. Material Milieu of the Birth of Buddhism 8. Trends of Social Evolution in the Epics 9. Conclusion 10. Afterword Appendices I. dating the Vedic Texts II. Notes on Maps III. Radiocarbon Dates for the Upper Gangetic Painted Grey Ware - Iron Sites IV. Radiocarbon Dates for Sites Yielding Iron Objects in the Middle Gangetic Plains in c. Pre-300 BC Times V. Pre-300 BC Sites with Iron Artefacts, NBP and Other Wares in the Middle Gangetic Plains Bibliography, Index
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