Iron and Social Change in Early IndiaBhairabi Prasad Sahu OUP India, 2006 - 248 pages 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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Page 46
... gives protection to the people . But the Buddhist canonical text Digha Nikaya seems to have been the earliest Indian source to give a reasoned justification of the origin of the kshatriya ruling class by painting in detail a state of ...
... gives protection to the people . But the Buddhist canonical text Digha Nikaya seems to have been the earliest Indian source to give a reasoned justification of the origin of the kshatriya ruling class by painting in detail a state of ...
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... give their negative opinion on metallurgy in India . Onesicritus the steersman said , according to Strabo : ' and gold and silver mines are reported in other mountains not far away , excellent mines , as has been plainly shown by Gorgus ...
... give their negative opinion on metallurgy in India . Onesicritus the steersman said , according to Strabo : ' and gold and silver mines are reported in other mountains not far away , excellent mines , as has been plainly shown by Gorgus ...
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... give us some idea about the thrust and drawhoes and the actual ploughshares of c . 1000 BC.4 The ancient Tamil works , generally ascribed to the first two or three centuries of the Christian era , depict the same technology of ...
... give us some idea about the thrust and drawhoes and the actual ploughshares of c . 1000 BC.4 The ancient Tamil works , generally ascribed to the first two or three centuries of the Christian era , depict the same technology of ...
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