INDIA
LAND SYSTEM AND RURAL SOCIETY IN EARLY INDIA
Land System and Rural Society in Early India highlights the growth and changing contours of historiography with regard to the agrarian history in early India. As such it incorporates some significant early writings as well as contributions which represent research still very much in progress. The patterns of regional socio-economic transformation in the context of wider historical developments come through in many of these essays.
The introduction analyses historiographical trends and focuses on problems and issues, and flowing from it the areas and nature of controÂversies as well as on related themes.
The articles included here deal with aspects of rural settlements, the concept of village community, the problem of the ownership of land, agrarian change, the structure of rural society and rural unrest.
The other volume in the series Readings in Early Indian History relates to women in early India.
About the Author General Editor
B.D. Chattopadhyaya retired as Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Editor
Bhairabi Prasad Sahu is Professor of History at the University of Delhi. His publications include From Hunters to Breeders (Faunal Background of Early India) (1988); The Changing Gaze: Regions and the Construction of Early India (2013) and Interrogating Political Systems: Integrative Processes and States in Pre-Modern India (2015; edited, with Hermann Kulke).
Contributors
Sibesh Battacharya l K.K. Gopal l Lallanji Gopal l Rajan Gurukkal l Irfan Habib l G.R. Kuppuswamy l Nayanjot Lahiri l T.V. Mahalingam l B.P. Mazumdar l R.N. Mishra l M.G.S. Narayanan l Marlene Njammasch l K.V. Raman l Y. Gopal Reddy l P. Shanmugam l R.S. Sharma l Y. Subbarayalu Kesavan Veluthat l Guyla Wojtilla l B.N.S. Yadava.
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