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A People's History of India 7: Society and Culture in Post-Mauryan India, C. 200 BC-AD 300
Contributor(s): Sahu, Bhairabi Prasad (Author), Veluthat, Kesavan (Contribution by)

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ISBN: 9382381759     ISBN-13: 9789382381754
Publisher: Tulika Books
OUR PRICE: $12.60  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: December 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia - India & South Asia
- History | Social History
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 306.095
LCCN: 2015363263
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Series: People's History of India
Physical Information: 96 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Indian
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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This book is the companion volume to A People's History of India 6, which gave an account of the political and economic history of the post-Mauryan period from c. 200 B.C. to A.D. 300. The present volume deals with the important aspects of the society and culture of the same period. It traces the diffusion of the caste system and describes its detailed codification. The major changes in religion, notably the emergence of Mahayana Buddhism and Bhakti in Brahmanism, are surveyed in depth. The reader will also find much that is fresh and enlightening in the accounts of sculpture, languages, and literature, in all of which fields the period saw much innovation and change.
 
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