From lineage to state : social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley/
Thapar,Romila
From lineage to state : social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley/ by Romila Thapar - New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. - 189p. 1 map ; 22 cm
Abbreviations--
I. Priliminaries--
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
India
Asia--Ganges River Valley
Social conditions
934.02 / THA/F
From lineage to state : social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley/ by Romila Thapar - New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. - 189p. 1 map ; 22 cm
Abbreviations--
I. Priliminaries--
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
India
Asia--Ganges River Valley
Social conditions
934.02 / THA/F