Iron and Social Change in Early IndiaBhairabi Prasad Sahu The role iron technology played in the development of a settled agrarian civilisation in India has long been controversially debated. In this volume, B.P. Sahu introduces a selection of seminal essays by leading scholars in the field, including D.D. Kosambi, R.S. Sharma, D.K.Chakrabarti and Shereen Ratnagar. Each thesis is placed in its historical and theoretical context, clarifying the dimensions of this ongoing and tangled debate. Seeking to give a fully comprehensive overview, Sahu also includes a collection of essays offering fresh regional perspectives on Northern and Central India, Kathiawar and Tamil Nadu. |
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... existence of some sort of sedentary life . Admittedly , this may have happened more markedly in the later stages ( second half of the last millennium BC ) when the mega- lithic folks moved towards the riverine plains and diversified ...
... existence of some sort of sedentary life . Admittedly , this may have happened more markedly in the later stages ( second half of the last millennium BC ) when the mega- lithic folks moved towards the riverine plains and diversified ...
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... existence to the status of a national and international socio - religious movement . This was indeed the begin- ning of Buddhism as a world religion . But to come back to our point . As a confirmed devotee Aśoka seems to have gone out ...
... existence to the status of a national and international socio - religious movement . This was indeed the begin- ning of Buddhism as a world religion . But to come back to our point . As a confirmed devotee Aśoka seems to have gone out ...
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... existence of ' surplus ' ! Surplus cannot be a mystical entity that producers are too full to eat ; it is , according to Childe , Pearson , Adams and others , social apportion- ing . Thus , according to Childe : ... to judge by the ...
... existence of ' surplus ' ! Surplus cannot be a mystical entity that producers are too full to eat ; it is , according to Childe , Pearson , Adams and others , social apportion- ing . Thus , according to Childe : ... to judge by the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Ancient Kosala and Magadha | 35 |
Material Background of the Origin of Buddhism | 42 |
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Age in India agrarian agricultural Ancient India arrowheads Aryans Atranjikhera axes Beginning of Iron Bihar black-and-red ware brahmanical bronze Buddha Buddhist century BC Chakrabarti chalcolithic Chirand context copper craft cultivation D.D. Kosambi Delhi deposits district Doab earlier Early India Early Iron Age economic excavations forests Ganga basin Ganga valley Ganga-Yamuna valley Gangetic plains Ghosh Harappan Hastinapura Ibid Indian Archaeology Indian History Indian iron Indus introduction of iron Iron Age iron objects iron technology iron tools Kathiawar Kosambi land later Vedic Magadha material culture Mauryan megalithic menpulam metal metallurgy middle Gangetic plains millennium BC NBPW NBPW levels NBPW period NBPW phase neolithic neolithic-chalcolithic Patna plough pottery Prakash pre-NBPW production Puratattva R.N. Mehta R.S. Sharma Rajghat region rice settlements sickles Singh society soil Sonepur south India stage surplus Tamilakam Taxila Thapar tools and implements trade Ujjain upper Ganga urbanization Uttar Pradesh vanpulam Wheeler