[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958) › c13.35 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c13.35 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c13.35 - **Language:** English ### [c13.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.35) ⁸ Schmidt assigns it to the 2nd cen. B.C. (Quoted in Dasgupta, Hist. of Sansk. Lit., p. 645) and H. P. Sastri to the first cen. A.D.; but Banerjee Sastri, Chakladar, Jolly and Winternitz ascribe it to the 3rd-4th cens. A.D. (Soc. Life in Anc. India, pp. 33-37). Chakladar thinks that Vātsyāyana flourished in western India (Ibid., p. 96). - [Previous: c13.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.34) - [Next: c13.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.36) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.35) · Pramāṇa