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This book makes a systematic study of economic conditions of ancient India, mainly dealing with the different aspects of agrarian economy. Tracing the origin of agriculture and pastoralism, it discusses at length the land rights, paradigms of land tenure, and measurement of land.
It also describes in detail the economic dimensions of land and feudal economy. The economic thoughts as gleaned from the Arthashastra of Kautilya find place in the discussion as well. ...
This work analyses the origin and growth of feudalism, and deals with the political, economic and social aspect of Indian feudalism. This period saw origin and growth feudalism, it referred the division of society into social estates, privileges for the nobility, closed economy, the dominant position of landed aristocrats, all that hampered the movement of society forward and restricted the development of town and trade. The Indian form of feudalism have been ...
Economic History of Early Medieval Northern India is an attempt to present the picture of agrarian formation and economic, changing which early medieval India had experienced. This book is a comprehensive and systematic study of the economic Institutions such as agriculture, types of crops, nature of peasantry, land grants, internal and domestic trade, urban concept, forced labour and paucity of coins etc. The book does not claim to present a general economic ...