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.