Iron and social Change in early India
edited by Bhairabi Prasad Sahu
- New Delhi Oxford university press 2006
- xii, 248p. : ill., maps, tables ; 22.5 cm.
- Debates in Indian history and society .
Includes bibliography and index.
I.THE FORMULATION AND EARLY CONTESTATIONS: Ancient Kosala and Magadha / Material background of the origin of Buddhism / Protohistoric chronology and technology and ecological factors: a synthesis / The problem of the beginning of the Iron age in India / The city in early historical India -- Beginning of iron social change in India / Technology and social change in early Indian history: a note posing a theoretical question / II.TOWARDS WIDENING HORIZONS: Iron tools, forest clearance and urbanization in the Gangetic plains / Material background of the genesis of the state and complex society in the middle Gangetic plains / The iron age in India: the beginning and consequences / Archaeology and the state / III.PERSPECTIVES FROM THE REGIONS: Agricultural production during the early Iron age in northern India / Impact of metal technology on economic development / Changing settlement patterns in Kathiawar / Aspects of early iron age economy: problems of Agrarian expansion in Tamilakam / D. D. Kosambi -- R. S. Sharma -- D. P. Agrawal -- Rodomir Pleiner -- A. Ghosh -- Dilip K. Chakrabarti -- Niharranjan Ray -- Makkham Lal -- R. S. Sharma -- Dilip K. Chakrabarti and Nayanjot Lahiri -- Shereen Ratnagar -- M. D. N. Sahi -- Vibha Tripathi -- Supriya Varma -- Rajan Gurukkal