TY - BOOK AU - Gurukkal, Rajan TI - Social Formations of early South India SN - 9780198089391 U1 - 301.4954 23 PY - 2022/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Social structure KW - India, South History N1 - SECTION I: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND METHOD II: EARLY SOCIAL FORMATIONS III: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS N2 - This book presents an incisive analysis of social formations in present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala from pre-historic times to early medieval period. It examines the economy, technology, and the process of state formation to understand the transformation from agro-pastoral to agrarian social formation ER -