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Book Summary
About the Book: Gotra: The Lineage of a Concept
Gotra divides caste. Caste divides society.
Gotra dictates who you cannot marry. Caste dictates who you must. How did gotra
come to be? Is it older than caste? How did ancient Indians conceive of
identities?
In this curated collection, D.D. Kosambi decodes how tribal assimilation and
patriarchal statecraft forged early Indian society. Tracing the shift from tribe
to gotra, he shows how Aryan and non-Aryan clans fused to construct brahminical
exogamy. Kosambi tracks the UrvasiPururavas encounter from the Vedic moment to
the Mahabharata to Kalidasa to understand the shift from matriarchy to
patriarchy. He uses
- ISBN-13
- 9788198697097
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Publisher
- Navayana
- Publishing Date
- 2026-10
- Total Pages
- 240
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Book Summary
About the Book: Gotra: The Lineage of a Concept
Gotra divides caste. Caste divides society.
Gotra dictates who you cannot marry. Caste dictates who you must. How did gotra
come to be? Is it older than caste? How did ancient Indians conceive of
identities?
In this curated collection, D.D. Kosambi decodes how tribal assimilation and
patriarchal statecraft forged early Indian society. Tracing the shift from tribe
to gotra, he shows how Aryan and non-Aryan clans fused to construct brahminical
exogamy. Kosambi tracks the UrvasiPururavas encounter from the Vedic moment to
the Mahabharata to Kalidasa to understand the shift from matriarchy to
patriarchy. He uses
Book Specifications
- ISBN-13
- 9788198697097
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Publisher
- Navayana
- Publishing Date
- 2026-10
- Total Pages
- 240