The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c6.16

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¹ For instance, Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, pp. 185 - 203 (summarised in Vedic Index, II, pp. 248-49), holds that the Vedic Indians on the Indus were unbrahmanized. He connects “the change from the casteless system of the Ṛigveda to the elaborate system of the Yajurveda with the advance of the Vedic Indians to the east.”