[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922) › v1.c19.s9.47 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s9.47 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s9.47 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s9.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.47) THE following analysis is constructed from a number of incidental allusions to economic conditions in the great Pāli thesaurus of the Jātaka, and, to a more limited extent in the Vinaya, and also in the other books of the Sutta Piṭaka, of which the Jātaka is a part. Dr Fick’s admirable monograph \*Die sociale Gliederung in Indien\* is similarly based. That work deals chiefly with social conditions. The present chapter, on the other hand, is mainly economic in scope, and only in a minor degree sociological. It is true that the evidence is drawn very largely from stories. But it is fairly clear that the folk in those tales have given them a parochial setting and local colour. And this is frequently borne out by the coincident testimony of other books not dealing with folk-lore. - [Previous: v1.c19.s9.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.46) - [Next: v1.c19.s9.48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.48) - [Up: v1.c19.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s9.47) · Pramāṇa