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Subordination of women is a common feature of almost all stages of history and is prevalent everywhere in the world. However, the extent and form of that subordination has been conditioned by the social and cultural environment in which women have been placed. To understand the position of women in early northern India, this study has been charted in a fashion that includes historiographical trends and perspectives, explores women’s spaces through the ...
Studies in Early Indian Urbanization, particularly with a view to examining the settlement pattern and social structure of an individual urban centre, are rare in South Asian Archeology. The present study has been undertaken to understand the special aspect of Mathura’s early growth and culture and its socio-political and economic history. Drawing on the archaeological studies and also on the text and inscriptions, it explores the character of Mathura as a ...
Harappan civilization is a product of a period of historical development in South Asia and is distinctive among the great river valley traditions of the third millennium Bronze Age. This book is based on literature of archaeology and its various interpretations in research journals and books. While discussing its geographical setting, urban forms, subsistence pattern, state, society, religion and religiosity, the author has attempted to address the genesis of ...