From lineage to state :
Thapar, Romila.
From lineage to state : social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley / Romila Thapar - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1984 - 189 p. : map ; 22 cm - Oxford India paperbacks .
"Expanded version of the Heras Memorial Lectures ... delivered at St. Xavier's College, Bombay in February 1980."--preface Originally published: Bombay : Oxford University Press, 1984
Includes bibliography and index
I. Preliminaries II. Lineage Society III. Transition to State IV. Ideology and the state V. Ergo
The author attempts to define Indian society in the crucial period of the mid-first millennium BC and examines the change that took place from a lineage-based society to the establishment of state systems, taking into account the emergence of a peasant economy and the process of urbanization.
0195626753 9780195626759
India -- History -- To 324 B.C.
Ganges River Valley (India and Bangladesh) -- History.
Asia -- Ganges River Valley.
Ganges River Valley (India and Bangladesh)--History
India--History--To 324 B.C.
934 / THA
From lineage to state : social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley / Romila Thapar - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1984 - 189 p. : map ; 22 cm - Oxford India paperbacks .
"Expanded version of the Heras Memorial Lectures ... delivered at St. Xavier's College, Bombay in February 1980."--preface Originally published: Bombay : Oxford University Press, 1984
Includes bibliography and index
I. Preliminaries II. Lineage Society III. Transition to State IV. Ideology and the state V. Ergo
The author attempts to define Indian society in the crucial period of the mid-first millennium BC and examines the change that took place from a lineage-based society to the establishment of state systems, taking into account the emergence of a peasant economy and the process of urbanization.
0195626753 9780195626759
India -- History -- To 324 B.C.
Ganges River Valley (India and Bangladesh) -- History.
Asia -- Ganges River Valley.
Ganges River Valley (India and Bangladesh)--History
India--History--To 324 B.C.
934 / THA