From Lineage to State
social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley
de Romila Thapar · Publicada por primera vez en 1984
The author attempts to define Indian society in the crucial period of the mid-first millennium BC and examines the change that took place from a lineage-based society to the establishment of state systems, taking into account the emergence of a peasant economy and the process of urbanization.
