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From Lineage to State: Social Formations in the Mid-First Millennium B. C. in the Ganga Valley

1985; Oxford University Press; Volume: 90; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1859794

1937-5239

B. G. Gokhale, Romila Thapar,

Eurasian Exchange Networks

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.