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Agrarian Structure in Central India and the Northern Deccan (C. AD 300-500): A Study of Vakataka Inscriptions

 
Krishna Mohan Shrimali (Author)
Synopsis An extremely conspicuous lacuna of the historiography of the Vakatakas has been an almost complete absence of any discussion on their economy. The present work makes an attempt to fill this gap. The work takes an overview of economy of the Vakatakas during c. A.D. 300-500 and focuses on its agrarian structure on the basis of epigraphic evidences. An interesting pattern of settlements pointing towards the burgeoning rural settlements and contraction of urbanism has been delineated in the larger perspective of environmental setting. An attempt has also been made to identify the agents of this new socio-economic transformation and the work concludes by highlighting that the Vakataka territory was the matrix of the earliest articulated tendencies of feudal beginnings. Apart from being the first survey of the economy of the Vakatakas, the cartographic delineation of various aspects of their inscriptions is yet another distinguishing feature of the work. Five maps included here show the chronological and geographical distribution of all Vakataka inscriptions and villages donated by the Vakatakas; settlements other than donated villages as well as the geographical configuration of administrative divisions. The texts of some newly discovered inscriptions have also been included.
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Krishna Mohan Shrimali

Krishna Mohan Shrimali has had a brilliant academic career althrough. He secured the first position in all the examinations of the Delhi Board and the University of Delhi. In 1973 he Was awarded the Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholarship, which enabled him to join the School of Oriental and African Studies. There he completed his History of Pancala. to c. A.D. 550, for which he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the University of London in 1976. This -was published in 1983. and the present work is further extension of that study. He has also contributed a number of research articles to various journals and translated important historical works into Hindi. After serving as the Treasurer of the Indian History Congress for three years (1980-83), he is currently Joint-Secretary and Incharge of the Permanent Office of the Congress. He started -his teaching career in his alma mater St. Stephen's College in 1968 and is now-Reader in Ancient Indian History in the University of Delhi since 1981.

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Bibliographic information

Title Agrarian Structure in Central India and the Northern Deccan (C. AD 300-500): A Study of Vakataka Inscriptions
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.1987
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 8121500508
length xii+135p.
Subjects History