Rajan Gurukkal

Social Formations of Early South India

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an incisive analysis of social formations in present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala from pre-historic times to early medieval period. It examines the economy, technology, and the process of state formation to understand the transformation from agro-pastoral to agrarian social formation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 149mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780198089391
• ISBN-10: 0198089392
• Artikelnr.: 54535437

Autorenporträt

Rajan Gurukkal is the Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. Previously, he served as Professor and Director, School of Social Sciences, at the same university.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Conceptual Preliminaries
Section I: Historiography and Method
Section II: Early Social Formations
Section III: Social Transformations
Section IV: The New Social Formation
Index