From Lineage to State
social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley
by Romila Thapar · 1984
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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.
HistoryGanges river (india and bangladesh)India, historyIndia, social conditionsSocial conditionsCivilization, history