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.