From Lineage to State

From Lineage to State PDF Author: Romila Thapar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
The author attempts to define Indian society in the crucial period of the mid-first millennium BC and examines the change that took place from a lineage-based society to the establishment of state systems, taking into account the emergence of a peasant economy and the process of urbanization.