TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thapar,Romila
TI  -  From lineage to state : : social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley
SN  - 0195626753
U1  - 934.02 
PY  - 1984///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - India	
KW  - Asia--Ganges River Valley	
KW  - Social conditions	
N1  - Abbreviations--
I. Priliminaries--
II.Lineage Society--
III.Transition to State--
IV.Ideology and the State--
V.Ergo

N2  - 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
ER  -