[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) › c19.10 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.10 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.10 - **Language:** English ### [c19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.10) Cachār district, 256 cailāsaka (a kind of goblin), 236 Cambridge History of India, i, 93 4. caṇḍālas, in later Vedic society, 71-2, 87, 89, 93, 126-7, 132, 134; in pre-Mauryan society, 138-9, origin of, 139; their absorption in brāhmaṇical society, 140; their material conditions and occupation, 141-2; comparison with the niṣādas, 143, 145-7; in Jain texts, 147-8; in Kauṭilya, 172, 174-5, 177, 185-7; in the post-Mauryan period, 221, 225-9, 232; in the Gupta period, 276-7, 281, 283, 286, 289-93, 295, 308, 336 Candra Gupta II, 254, 282, 342 Candra Gupta Kumāradevi Coin, 341 Candragupta Maurya, 157, 172, 182, 324 Cārudatta, 288 Caturvargacintāmaṇi, 304 Celts, 54 Central Asia, 195, 341 Central India, 256, 258 chalcolithic society, 21 Chamba grants, 329 Chāndogya Upaniṣad, 52, 75-6, 89 Childers, 105 China, 195, 197, 341 Chinas (people), 37, 344 Chinese travellers, 320 Christian era, 37, 242, 246, 322, 326 Colebrooke, 1 Council of Twelve, 54 corvée, 101, 171, 241 Cretans, 182 cuñcus (mixed caste), 227, 336 cult of Viṣṇu, 232 Cunda, the śūdra artisan, 98 Cuttack, 339 Cyavana (ṛṣi), 286 - [Previous: c19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.9) - [Next: c19.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.11) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.10) · Pramāṇa