Society Nobility and Institutions in Ancient India
Verma, B.R. & Bakshi, S.R. (Eds.)
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Book ID : 28539
ISBN-10 : 81-7169-823-9 / 8171698239
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2005
Edition :
Language :
25 cm.
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DESCRIPTION
This volume depicts in a comprehensive way about the society, nobility and institutions in ancient India. Its academic coverage is fairly large clarifying several significant points on the functioning of bureaucracy and caste system at various levels. The Himalayan kingdoms and the fall of Rajput kingdoms which flourished well in their glory for some time, have been explained in a comprehensive way. On Ajmer and Kanauj new facts have been given in the volume.
This volume deals with the society, nobility and institutions in ancient India. It contains twenty chapters having deep bearing on life of nobility, political environments, the state and the ruler, bureaucracy and the people, caste system among Hindus and Muslims, religions beliefs and rituals, the domestic life, land revenue system, festivals, industries and handicrafts, language and literacy activities, the Himalayan kingdoms, the last Hindu-Emperor, fall of Ajmer and kanauj, the fall of Rajput kingdoms, the Ajanta Caves, the Gupta empire and North India in Sixth and Seventh centuries.
