Recent Perspectives of Early Indian History

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