Till the latter half of the nineteen fifties, when Kosambi revolutionised the study of history on a socioeconomic basis through his An Introduction of Indian History, historical studies in India were mostly dynastic and political--cataloguing the list of the kings and their achievements. Since then many have followed the footsteps of the savant and have published tomes on the socioeconomic aspects of India--regional and pan-Indian. Yet this trend was rather slow ...
