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From Lineage to State: Social Formations of the Mid-First Millenium BC in the Ganga Valley: Social Formations in the Mid-First Millenium B.C. in the Ganga Valley - Softcover

Romila Thapar

 
9780195626759: From Lineage to State: Social Formations of the Mid-First Millenium BC in the Ganga Valley: Social Formations in the Mid-First Millenium B.C. in the Ganga Valley

Synopsis

This is an attempt to define Indian society in the crucial period of the mid-first millennium BC and in the seminal area of the Ganges Valley. It examines the major change from a lineage-based society to the establishment of state systems, and takes into account the emergence of a peasant economy and the process of urbanization.

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