TY - BOOK AU - Thapar,Romila TI - From lineage to state: social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley [electronic resource] SN - 9780199080656 (ebook) : AV - DS485.G25 T46 1984 U1 - 934.02 23 PY - 1984/// CY - Bombay, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Ganges River Valley (India and Bangladesh) KW - History KW - India KW - To 324 B.C N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195626759.001.0001 ER -