This pioneering book is an honest effort to unravel the conditions of rural life and economy of ancient Orissa (c. A.D. 400-1000) based chiefly on epigraphic sources and thus, it is a comprehensive, critical and compact study on the subject. A major concern of the present work is to study and highlight every bit of information available from the epigraphic records with regard to the rural economy and society of ancient Orissa, from 4th century A.D. to 10th ...
