Cover of From Lineage to State

Book 1985

From Lineage to State

8 readers

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Language
English
Published
1985
  • History
  • India, history
  • India, social conditions
  • Social conditions
  • Civilization, history

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.