[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) › c19.32 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.32 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c19.32 - **Language:** English ### [c19.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.32) labourers (workers), 5; in the later Vedic period, 87; in the pre-Mauryan period, 95, 101-3, 107-11, 114, 127, 129, 153, 155; in the Mauryan period, 161, 162-66, 168-70, 171, 175; in the post-Mauryan period, 204; agricultural labourers in the Gupta period, 250-52, 265-67, 316, 321 Lacedaemonians, 182 Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, 247 later Vedic Literature, 46-47 Latin, 196 Lātyāyana Śrautasūtra, 47 Licchavis, 333 Līlāvatī (prostitute), 306, 226-7, 336 - [Previous: c19.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.31) - [Next: c19.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.33) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c19.32) · Pramāṇa