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Book 1993

From Lineage to State

8 readers

Publisher
OUP India
Published
1993
  • Cultural studies
  • Social history
  • Urban communities
  • India

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.