About the Book: History, Archaeology and Ideology : Essays On Intellectual and
Social History Of Early India
In a country as vast and varied as India and that too with an extraordinary long
and continuous history spanning over several millennia, historical processes of
its development just cannot be unilinear. Since such diversified processes are
being presented in this monograph in a broad material background, it becomes
imperative that the simultaneous presence of varied production processes in
different parts of the subcontinent is recognised and underlined. In fact, modes
of production and productive forces as factors behind historical transformations
through the centuries have been stressed in most of the