An edition of From Lineage to State (1984)
From lineage to state
social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley
By Romila Thapar
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Publish Date
1990
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
eng
Pages
189
Description:
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.