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HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA: Volume VI: Social, Political and Judicial Ideas, Institutions and Practices

Edited By :- Dilip K. Chakrabarti

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Type: English

Pages: xvi+270

Format: Hard Bound

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-485-3

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 22cm x 28cm

Product Year: 2018

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The human society offers a vast field of study in any context, and for this volume of essays devoted to the study of ancient Indian society we have selected only a few of its aspects. The first essay is an introduction to the modern anthropological studies on caste whereas the second one is a detailed study of how the ancients perceived the caste differences through time and how the complexity of the system was matched even in the ancient context by some of the complexities that one observes today on the ground. The third essay is basically about the rural and urban contexts in which the caste system operated. It offers a generalized picture of the rural and urban societies of ancient India, giving a spatial and social backdrop to the tangible manifestation of the caste system. The position of women in ancient Indian society is then discussed by two scholars, one examining mainly the sources on which our ideas are based, and the second offering the theoretical historical frameworks within which the problem has been generally perceived. The sixth essay outlines the basic shapes of ancient Indian education, state and government, and law. What emerges very clearly is both the logic and stability of the ancient Indian social system with its roots in the concept of Dharma which manifests itself in detail in the Dharmas of the various Varnas and Jatis which have honeycombed this society through the ages.

Foreword
Editor’s Preface

1. Understanding Caste through an Anthropological Lens
— Subhadra Mitra Channa
2. The Caste System of Ancient India: A Study of the Literary and Epigraphic Sources
— Rupendra Kumar Chattopadhyay
3. The Village, the City, and Aspects of Rural and Urban Life in Ancient India
— Kiran Kumar Thaplyal
4. Position of Women in Ancient India: A Study of the Sources
— Aparajita Dasgupta
5. Imaging Women in Ancient Indian Context
— Vijaya Laxmi Singh
6. Notes on Ancient Indian Education, State and Government, and Law
— Dilip K. Chakrabarti
Contributors
Index

Dilip K. Chakrabarti is Emeritus Professor of South Asian Archaeology of Cambridge University and Editor, History of Ancient India series, VIF. His recent publications include The Borderlands and Boundaries of the Indian Subcontinent: Baluchistan to the Patkai Range and ArakanYoma (Delhi 2018: Aryan Books).

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