Sharma, Ram Sharan

Sudras in ancient India a social history of the lower order down to circa A.D. 600 by Ram Sharan Sharam - 3rd rev. ed. - Delhi Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 1990 - xix, 384p. ; 22 cm.

Includes appendix, bibliography, index (Sanskrit, Pail and Prakrit word) and general index.

Historiography and approach -- Origin -- Tribe versus varna (c.1000 - 500 B.C.) -- Servility and disabilities (c.600 - c.300 B.C.) -- Stater control and the servile order (c.300 - c.20 B.C.) -- Crisis in the old order (c.200 B.C. - c. A.D. 300) -- Peasanthood and religious rights (c. A.D. 300-600) -- Change and continuity

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