TY  - BOOK
AU  - Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi
TI  - An Introduction to the Study of Indian History
SN  - 9789386042217
U1  - 	954 D186 I 
PY  - 1030///80
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Sage
KW  - India
N1  - The use of scientific methodology, modern techniques of interpretation, and selection and analysis of basic problems make An Introduction to the Study of Indian History a vivid and absorbing read.

The author has thrown open new fields for research through this book, which serves as a critical guide to scientific historical thought. It helps the reader gain profound insight into the past by examining monuments, customs and surviving records. At the same time, the present is shown to be the inevitable result of a steady historical development. Complete grasp of the material and mastery of detail shown in the survey of the development from a pre-historic tribal society to the present machine-age make this volume a unique contribution to contemporary historiography.

This book is the culmination of patient research and mature reflection of a profoundly original mind and has earned universal recognition and honour over the last few decades.

Note: Now this ISBN-9788171540389 has a new identity.
; PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION    PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION    PUBLISHER’S NOTE    ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY    CHRONOLOGICAL OUTLINE    SCOPE AND METHODS    Special methods needed for Indian history    Available materials    The underlying philosophy   
THE HERITAGE OF PRE-CLASS SOCIETY
  Prehistoric archaeology    Tribal society    Tribal survivals    The Vetala cult    Higher local cults    Festivals and rites   
CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM IN THE INDUS VALLEY
  The Indus cities    Indus trade and religion    Maintenance of a class structure    Food production   
THE ARYANS IN THE LAND OF THE SEVEN RIVERS
  Aryans outside India    Rgvedic information    Panis and new tribes    Origins of caste    Brahmin clans   
THE ARYAN EXPANSION
  Aryan as a mode of living    Study of legend and myth    Yajurvedic settlements    The eastward drive    Tribes and dynasties    The mark of primitive tribes    The new brahminism    Beyond brahminism; ritual, food production and trade    The need for a radical change   
THE RISE OF MAGADHA
  New institutions and sources    Tribes and kingdoms    Kosala and Magadha    Destruction of tribal power    New religions    Buddhism    Appendix: Punch-marked coins   
THE FORMATION OF A VILLAGE ECONOMY
  The first empire    Alexander and the Greek accounts of India    The Asokan transformation of society    Authenticity of the Arthasastra    The pre-Asokan state and administration    The class structure    Productive basis of the state   
INTERLUDE OF TRADE AND INVASIONS
  After the Mauryans    Superstition in an agrarian society    Caste and the village; the Manusmrti    Changes in religion    The settlement of the Deccan plateau    Commodity producers and trade    The development of Sanskrit    Social functions of Sanskrit literature   
FEUDALISM FROM ABOVE
  Early feudal developments    Growth of villages and barbarism    The India of the Guptas and Harsa    Religion and the development of village settlement    The concept of property in land    Mayurasarman's settlement of the west coast    Village craftsmen and artisans   
FEUDALISM FROM BELOW
  Difference between Indian and English feudalism    The role of trade in feudal society    The Muslims    Change to feudalism from below; slavery    Feudal prince, landlord, and peasant    Degeneracy and collapse    The bourgeois conques    APPENDIX    THE MAKING OF HISTORY [ILLUSTRATIONS]    COMMENTARY TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS    INDEX
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