Post-Mauryan India, 200 BC – AD 300: A Political and Economic History

A People's History of India

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Irfan Habib, Professor Emeritus at the Aligarh Muslim University and an acclaimed expert in the field of Indian history, here discusses the political and economic history of ancient India from 200 BC to AD 300, when the Indo-Greeks, Shakas, Kushanas and the Satavahanas dominated the political scene. This is a detailed survey of the important economic changes under them especially in craft production and overseas trade. Based on fully updated material, it includes translation of select inscriptions and extracts from texts which are appended to the chapters. It has special notes on the Puranas, the Sangam texts and Kushana chronology as well as numismatics and some elementary concepts of economics. The text is supported by maps and illustrations that include reproductions of coins and sculptures.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib, formerly Professor of History at Aligarh Muslim University, is a well-known historian and author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707 (1963; second rev. edn. 1999), An Atlas of the Mughal Empire (1982), and Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception (1995). He is also the author of Prehistory (2001), the first in a series of monographs on a Peopleâ€™s History of India, to be published successively under the auspices of the Aligarh Historians Society.