Volume No. : 9
Issue No. : 1
Year : 2018
ISSN Print : 2321-5828
ISSN Online : 0975-6795
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Suraj Bhan Bhardwaj
Associate Professor, Department of History, Motilal Nehru College, South Campus University of Delhi, Delhi
*Corresponding Author
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DOI No: 10.5958/2321-5828.2018.00058.X
ABSTRACT:
This essay traces the broad stages of socio-economic development for over two millennia in Haryana from the proto-historic period to the early medieval period. Beginning with the rural, semi-nomadic, agro-pastoral economy of pre-literate, pre-class, pre-state Vedic people, the region underwent significant economic transformations in the sixth century BCE: widespread use of iron, extensive sedentary agriculture, trade, and urbanization. These had profound social consequences in that they led to emergence of caste- and state-systems. These developments were accelerated over time, leading to consolidation of village communities, proliferation of occupational castes (jatis), intensification of social inequalities, and political ascendency of clans and emergence of clan-based ruling elites by the first millennium CE.
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KEYWORDS:
Vedic, Aryans, iron, Mauryan, Rajputs, untouchability, caste peasantry, trade, clan-monarchies.
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Cite:
Suraj Bhan Bhardwaj. Trajectories of Socio-Economic Change in Haryana, up to First Millennium CE. Res. J. Humanities and Social Sciences. 2018; 9(1): 325-328.
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