The Vedic age and the coming of iron, c. 1500-700 B.C.

Author/Creator:

Habib, Irfan, 1931-

Publication/Creation:

New Delhi : Tulika Books, 2003

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

The Vedic age and the coming of iron, c. 1500-700 B.C. / Irfan Habib, Vijay Kumar Thakur

Series Titles:

People's history of India ; 3
People's history of India ; 3.

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Additional Author/Creators:

Thakur, Vijay Kumar, 1952-
Aligarh Historians Society

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Hindu civilization
India--History--To 324 B.C.

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

I. Early Vedic phase, c. 1500-1000 BC: 1. The Rigveda -- 2. Antecedents and region of settlements -- 3. Economy -- 4. Society and polity -- 5. Aryas and Dasyus and Dasas: the emergence of Four Varnas -- 6. Religion -- 7. Other aspects of culture -- II. Late Vedic Society, c. 1000-700 BC: 1. The Vedic corpus after the Rigveda, Avesta -- 2. Political history -- 3. Economy -- 4. Society -- 5. Religion -- 6. Other aspects of culture -- III. India, 1500-700 BC: The archaeological evidence: 1. Archaeological cultures of the Aryan zone -- 2. Peninsular India -- 3. The coming of Iron.

Summary:

"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 sources, which should give the reader a taste of what these texts are like." -- publisher description.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

viii, 100 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

General Note:

"Aligarh Historians Society."

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990005051980302486

ISBN:

8185229856
9788185229850

OCLC Number:

55961339

Barcode:

010001050471