Sudras in Ancient India

A Social History of the Lower Order Down to Circa A.D. 600

Hardcover, 384 pages

English language

Published Feb. 2, 2002 by South Asia Books.

ISBN:
978-81-208-0706-8
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OCLC Number:
25763244

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R S Sharma gives an excellent account of the origin of Shudras and how it matured as a varna in the ancient system. Even though Sharma is constrained by the material available to him, he does put forward a largely convincing theory. I hope the next generation of historians takes this research further to include more archeological and epigraphical evidence.

Subjects

  • Asian / Middle Eastern history: BCE to c 500 CE
  • India
  • BCE to c 500 CE
  • Cultural And Social Anthropology
  • Social Stratification
  • Sociology