A Study in the Economic Condition of Ancient India
Population estimates from villages in texts, land, agriculture, revenue, prices, wages and standard of living; based on Arthaśāstra, smṛtis, Pāli.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Pran Nath Vidyalankar
- Extent
- 766 passages, 46,155 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · 1st ed., London: Royal Asiatic Society (Asiatic Society Monographs) 1929; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1… · In copyright (Pran Nath Vidyalankar); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 15 parts
- c2 Contents — 26 parts
- c3 Introduction — 18 parts
- c4 Chapter I. Territorial Divisions in Ancient India — 3 parts
- c5 Chapter II. Administration — 2 parts
- c6 Chapter III. Weights, Measures, Coinage, and Rate of Interest — 4 parts
- c7 Chapter IV. Prices — 2 parts
- c8 Chapter V. Population of the Country — 28 parts
- c9 Chapter VI. The Landowning Classes — 65 parts
- c10 Chapter VII. The Labouring Classes — 2 parts
- c11 Appendix A — 5 parts
- c12 Bibliography — 41 parts