Iron and social Change in early India / edited by Bhairabi Prasad Sahu

Includes bibliography and index.

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