From lineage to state : Social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley / Romila Thapar

By:

Thapar, Romila

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Oxford India paperbacksPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1990Description: 189 p. : map ; 22 cmISBN:

0195626753
9780195626759

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DDC classification:

19 934 THA

Contents:

I. Preliminaries II. Lineage Society III. Transition to State IV. Ideology and the state V. Ergo

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library History & Geography	Non-fiction	934 THA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Available		41709

"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

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.

Includes bibliography and index

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