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A People's History of India 3: The Vedic Age
Contributor(s): Habib, Irfan (Author), Thakur, Vijay (Author)

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 ISBN: 9382381716     ISBN-13: 9789382381716
Publisher: Tulika Books
OUR PRICE: $15.75  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: March 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia - India & South Asia
- History | Ancient - General
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Series: People's History of India
Physical Information: 108 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Indian
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Asian
 
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Publisher Description:
The Vedic Age completes the first set of three monographs in the People's History of India series. It deals with the period c. 1500 to c. 700 bc, during which it sets the Rigveda and the subsequent Vedic corpus. It explores aspects of geography, migrations, technology, economy, society, religion, and philosophy. It draws on these texts to reconstruct the life of the ordinary people, with special attention paid to class as well as gender. In a separate chapter, the major regional cultures as revealed by archaeological evidence are carefully described. Much space is devoted to the coming of iron, for the dawn of the Iron Age - though not the Iron Age itself - lay within the period this volume studies. There are special notes on historical geography, the caste system (whose beginnings lay in this period) and the question of epic archaeology. A special feature of this monograph is the inclusion of seven substantive extracts from different sources, which should give the reader a taste of what these texts are like.
 
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