History of India: ancient and medieval / Vedic age
Later Vedic transition to territorial states
Concepts to cover
- Eastward expansion into the doab, Painted Grey Ware, iron (shyama ayas), rice
- Janapadas and rashtra; rajasuya, ashvamedha, vajapeya; decline of sabha and samiti
- Hardening of four varnas, ashrama system, gotra and exogamy, decline of women's status
- Prajapati, Vishnu and Rudra rise; elaborate sacrifices; Upanishadic reaction
Where to study
India’s Ancient Past · R. S. Sharma
- ch. 13
Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History, Volume I
- Lesson 2 Early India: The Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Iron Age and Vedic Cultures, pp. 26-45 (printed 22-41)
- Lesson 2 Early India: The Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Iron Age and Vedic Cultures, Later Vedic Culture and Iron, pp. 37-38 (printed 33-34)
- Lesson 2 Early India: The Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Iron Age and Vedic Cultures, Political Organization, pp. 38-39 (printed 34-35)
- Lesson 2 Early India: The Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Iron Age and Vedic Cultures, Family; Women (varna, ashrama and gotra), p. 40 (printed 36)
- Lesson 2 Early India: The Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Iron Age and Vedic Cultures, Religious Faith and Belief System; Other aspects of Life, pp. 41-42 (printed 37-38)
Our Pasts I, Class VI, ch. 4 What Books and Burials Tell Us
- ch. 4 What Books and Burials Tell Us, pp. 1-11 (printed 35-45)
Our Pasts I, Class VI, ch. 5 Kingdoms, Kings and an Early Republic
- ch. 5 Kingdoms, Kings and an Early Republic, pp. 1-11 (printed 46-56)
- ch. 5 Kingdoms, Kings and an Early Republic, Janapadas, p. 3 (printed 48)
- ch. 5 Kingdoms, Kings and an Early Republic, How some men became rulers, p. 1 (printed 46)
Our Pasts I, Class VI, ch. 6 New Questions and Ideas
- ch. 6 New Questions and Ideas, The system of ashramas, p. 8 (printed 64)
- ch. 6 New Questions and Ideas, Upanishads, pp. 3-4 (printed 59-60)