Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 (Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600)
Origin and position of śūdras, slaves and untouchables period by period: legal status, occupations, economic role, religion; from Vedic, Pāli, smṛti, Arthaśāstra.
- Language
- English
- Author
- R. S. Sharma
- Extent
- 3,255 passages, 135,852 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · 1st ed., Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass 1958; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and… · In copyright (R. S. Sharma †2011); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 5 parts
- c2 Śūdras in Ancient India — 5 parts
- c3 Preface to the Second Edition — 5 parts
- c4 Preface to the First Edition — 3 parts
- c5 Abbreviations — 5 parts
- c6 Roman Equivalents of Nāgarī Letters — 3 parts
- c7 Contents — 27 parts
- c8 Chapter I: Historiography and Approach — 336 parts
- c9 Chapter III: Tribe versus Varṇa — 351 parts
- c10 Chapter IV: Servility and Disabilities — 564 parts
- c11 Chapter V: State Control and the Servile Order — 273 parts
- c12 Chapter VI: Crisis in the Old Order — 468 parts
- c13 Chapter VII: Peasanthood and Religious Rights — 679 parts
- c14 Chapter VIII: Change and Continuity — 37 parts
- c15 Appendix I: Date of the Manu Smṛti with Special Reference to the Tenth Chapter — 50 parts
- c16 Appendix II: Proliferation of Servile and Peasant Castes — 53 parts
- c17 Bibliography — 8 parts
- c18 Index (Sanskrit, Pāli and Prākrit Words) — 48 parts
- c19 General Index — 61 parts
- c20 Errata — 9 parts