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The book seeks to comprehend and evaluate the general views associated with watering of agricultural fields in medieval India against the backdrop of a commonly accepted notion that wells formed the most widely distributed common source of irrigation in those days, and that there was no ‘canal’ in the same way we understand them today. Opinions expressed are poles asunder and ranged from one extreme to another. Whereas one talks of India being essentially a ...
The present study is based on the theory of social surplus which continues to be "the best working hypothesis" to test some of the complex social and economic problems like the one at hand. An attempt has been made to study how social surplus determined changes in society and economy, created class consciousness and shaped the relationship between the producers and the consumers at the urban and rural level as well as gave rise to trade and commerce ...