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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... whole story a legend , it would seem appropriate to reproduce it literally : ' On iron being on the bottom of the well Ktesias says he has [ there are ] two swords of it , one from the king [ Artaxerxes Mnémon ] , the second from the ...
... whole story a legend , it would seem appropriate to reproduce it literally : ' On iron being on the bottom of the well Ktesias says he has [ there are ] two swords of it , one from the king [ Artaxerxes Mnémon ] , the second from the ...
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... whole of India , has all along been emphasized . " To lay stress on the regional character of these Copper - Bronze Age cultures is not to deny their mutual contacts in so far as they were contemporary and the practice of extra ...
... whole of India , has all along been emphasized . " To lay stress on the regional character of these Copper - Bronze Age cultures is not to deny their mutual contacts in so far as they were contemporary and the practice of extra ...
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... whole , as H.W. Pearson ' argued decades ago , no cut - off between subsistence and surplus can possibly be deter- mined ; what instead happens is that by a reversal of logic , when ' trade ' or ' crafts ' are detected the historian ...
... whole , as H.W. Pearson ' argued decades ago , no cut - off between subsistence and surplus can possibly be deter- mined ; what instead happens is that by a reversal of logic , when ' trade ' or ' crafts ' are detected the historian ...
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