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Ancient India: Insights into Social & Economic Dynamics

Author: G.C. Chauhan
ISBN: 9789395474801
Binding: Hardcover
Year: 2025
Pages: 338 with 1 b/w illustration
Size: 15 x 23 cm Price: INR 1995.00

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Ancient India: Insights into Social & Economic Dynamics begins with a survey of Vākāṭakas epigraphy reflecting society and religion of Vākāṭakas. This book further discusses certain social and economic issues, and also deals with some important issues such as sea and sea-faring as reflecting in Ṛigveda and agrarian relations in early medieval India. Buddhist community: elements of social change, teacher-taught relationship as enshrined in Upaniṣads, and social organisation as reflected in Manusmṛiti. The sacred waters: rain’s significance in the Vedās and reflection of Satī in literary and epigraphical traditions are some of the major themes taken up. The contributors of this book reconstruct the social and economic dynamics in ancient India. Trends, changes and continuity are identified and socio-economic developments are seen in their interconnection. Lastly, the book addresses significant social issues in the history of ancient India.

G.C. Chauhan

G.C. Chauhan is professor of ancient Indian history at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He has done much to reconstruct the social and economic history of ancient India. His books include Economic History of Early Medieval Northern India (2003); Origin and Growth of Feudalism in Early India: From the Mauryas to AD 650 (2004); Some Aspects of Early Indian Society (2012); What Happened in Ancient India (2012); Agrarian Economy of Ancient India (2013); Indian Buddhism: An Historical Overview (2013); Light and Shades of Popular Beliefs in Hill States: A Case Study of Shimla Hills (2013); Early Indian Feudal Society and its Culture (2015); Economic History of Mauryan India (2020); Reflections: Looking Back at Social Institutions of Ancient India (2023); and An Overview of Historiographical Approaches (2024).