From lineage to state
Subtitle: social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley
By: Romila Thapar.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Ganges River Valley (India and Bangladesh) -- History; India -- History -- To 324 B.C
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [175]-182.