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Discipline. Ancient India, Early Medieval India. Ram Sharan Sharma (26 November 1919 – 20 August 2011 [1]) was an Indian historian and Indologist [2] who specialised in the history of Ancient and early Medieval India. [3] He taught at Patna University and Delhi University (1973–85) and was visiting faculty at University of Toronto (1965 ...
Indian Feudalism. Indian Feudalism is a book by Indian professor Ram Sharan Sharma. The book analyses the practice of land grants, which became considerable in the Gupta period and widespread in the post-Gupta period. It shows how this led to the emergence of a class of landlords, endowed with fiscal and administrative rights superimposed upon ...
D. N. Jha. Dwijendra Narayan Jha (1940 – 4 February 2021) was an Indian historian who studied and wrote on ancient and medieval India. [2] He was a professor of history at Delhi University and a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research.
Ugaritic texts. The Ugaritic texts are a corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in 1928 in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) and Ras Ibn Hani in Syria, and written in Ugaritic, an otherwise unknown Northwest Semitic language. Approximately 1,500 texts and fragments have been found to date. The texts were written in the 13th and 12th centuries BC .
The term Indian feudalism is used to describe taluqdars, zamindars, and jagirdars. Most of these systems were abolished after the independence of India and the rest of the subcontinent. D. D. Kosambi and R. S. Sharma, together with Daniel Thorner, brought peasants into the study of Indian history for the first time. [1]
Arthashastra Books 2.10, 6-7, 10 A notable structure of the treatise is that while all chapters are primarily prose, each transitions into a poetic verse towards its end, as a marker, a style that is found in many ancient Hindu Sanskrit texts where the changing poetic meter or style of writing is used as a syntax code to silently signal that the chapter or section is ending. All 150 chapters ...
Chandraketugarh is thought to be a part of the ancient kingdom Gangaridai that was first described by Ptolemy in his famous work Geographica (150 CE). [11] [1] A recent archaeological study being conducted by a team from IIT Kharagpur, believes that King Sandrocottus (mentioned by Greek explorer Megasthenes) was Chandraketu, whose fort ...
Shudra or Shoodra [1] ( Sanskrit: Śūdra [2]) is one of the four varnas of the Hindu caste and social system in ancient India. [3] [4] Some sources translate it into English as a caste, [4] or as a social class. Theoretically, Shudras constituted a class like workers. [2] [5] [6]