- Romila Thapar
From Lineage to State
Social Formations of the Mid-First Millenium BC in the Ganga Valley
Engels |
Paperback |
9780195626759 |
1991 |
198 Pagina's
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.