Recent Perspectives of Early Indian History

agrarian agriculture analysis Ancient India archaeological artefacts Aryan Asian Aśoka brahmadeya brāhmaṇas brahmanical Buddhist Calcutta caste central century A.D. chalcolithic Champakalakshmi Chattopadhyaya coins Cōla concept context culture Deccan Delhi dominant Dravidian Early Historical Early Indian early medieval economic emergence epics evidence Excavations exchange Ganga Ganga plain goddess groups Gupta Gurukkal Harappan hierarchy Hindu historians India Delhi Indian feudalism Indian History Indo-Aryan Indus inscriptions iron jāti Kalabhra Karnataka king kinship Kosambi Kṛṣṇa kṣatriya labour land landgrants language linguistic major Malwa material Mauryan megalithic Mehrgarh ments millennium B.C. mythology myths nāḍu neolithic northern India Oxford University Press Pallava pattern peasant period perspective political pottery production rājā refer region religion religious ritual role royal sacrifice Sanskrit segmentary settlements Sharma significant Śiva social formation society South Asia south India structure Subbarayalu Tamil Tamil Nadu Taxila temple Thapar tion trade tradition village