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Oxford University Press From Lineage To State Social Formations Of The Mid First Millenium Bc In by Romila Thapar
This is an attempt to define Indian society in the crucial period of the mid-first millennium BC and in the seminal area of the Ganges Valley. It examines the major change from a lineage-based society to the establishment of state systems, and takes into account the emergence of a peasant economy and the process of urbanization.