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Society and Culture in Post-Mauryan India c. 200 BC - AD 300

Published in association with Aligarh Historians Society

A People's History of India 7

February 2022

6.25 x 9.5 inches

(xii+84) 96 pages

ISBN : 978-93-82381-84-6

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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.

Bhairabi Prasad Sahu

Bhairabhi Prasad Sahu teaches at the Department of History, University of Delhi. He is the author of From Hunters to Breeders: Faunal Background of Early India (1988), and has edited Land System and Rural Society in Early India (1997).