History of India: ancient and medieval / Vedic age
Rigvedic polity and economy
Practise 3 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Indo-Aryan identity debate and the Sapta Sindhu geography of the Rigveda
- Rajan, jana, vish, grama; sabha, samiti, vidatha; purohita and senani; bali as voluntary offering
- Cattle wealth (gavishti), yava, wells and draught animals for irrigation, the ox and plough; copper and bronze, no iron
- Contrasts used in the exam: horse, coat of mail and helmet, gold and silver, metals known to each culture
Where to study
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)
- ch. 4 What Books and Burials Tell Us, Sanskrit and other languages; How historians study the Rigveda; Vishvamitra and the Rivers, pp. 2-3 (printed 36-37)
- ch. 4 What Books and Burials Tell Us, Cattle, horses and chariots; Words to describe people, pp. 4-5 (printed 38-39)
- ch. 4 What Books and Burials Tell Us, Cattle, horses and chariots, p. 4 (printed 38)
India’s Ancient Past · R. S. Sharma
- ch. 11 to 12
- ch. 11
- ch. 12
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, Vedic Culture (the Aryan question and the Indo-Aryan homeland), pp. 32-33 (printed 28-29)
- Lesson 2 Early India: The Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Iron Age and Vedic Cultures, Polity and Political Clashes; Tribe and Family, pp. 33-34 (printed 29-30)
- Lesson 2 Early India: The Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Iron Age and Vedic Cultures, Political Organization, p. 38 (printed 34)
- Lesson 2 Early India: The Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Iron Age and Vedic Cultures, Tribe and Family; Trade, Exchange and Redistribution, pp. 34-35 (printed 30-31)
- Lesson 2 Early India: The Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Iron Age and Vedic Cultures, Vedic Culture (contrast with the Indus material culture), pp. 32-33 (printed 28-29)