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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... Rainfall was poor . Even now Punjab has 10 " to 20 " of annual rainfall , though it has an immense sea of underground fresh water . The lower Indus plain has much less rainfall , in Sind it is less than 5.2 Such a climate and soil could ...
... Rainfall was poor . Even now Punjab has 10 " to 20 " of annual rainfall , though it has an immense sea of underground fresh water . The lower Indus plain has much less rainfall , in Sind it is less than 5.2 Such a climate and soil could ...
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... rainfall as it falls within the contours 25 " -40 " of annual rainfall . " The soil is meadow type and tropical and subtropical dry steppe on older alluvium and hard rocks with solonets'.4 Naturally , a monsoon fed forest grew up . Most ...
... rainfall as it falls within the contours 25 " -40 " of annual rainfall . " The soil is meadow type and tropical and subtropical dry steppe on older alluvium and hard rocks with solonets'.4 Naturally , a monsoon fed forest grew up . Most ...
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... rainfall around 500 mm / year , millets grow best in this area . On the mainland , a few early historic sites are scattered on the sandy plain , north of the Banas river . With rainfall less than 400 mm / year . the region is not very ...
... rainfall around 500 mm / year , millets grow best in this area . On the mainland , a few early historic sites are scattered on the sandy plain , north of the Banas river . With rainfall less than 400 mm / year . the region is not very ...
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