This book examines the socio-economic and political processes in south India from ancient to early medieval period by focusing on areas like technology, social relations, agrarian structures and institutions, political processes, andstate. INDICE: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1.: Early Social Formations: A Historiographic Review; 2.: Semiotics of Ancient Tamil Poetics: A Historiographic Consideration; 3.: Forms of Production and Forces of Change in Ancient Tamil Society; 4.: Early Iron Age Economy: Problems of Agrarian Expansion in Tamilakam; 5.: From Clan and Lineage to Hereditary Occupations and Caste in the Tamil Macro Region; 6.: Towards a New Discourse: Discursive Processes in Early South India; 7.: Tribes, Forest, and Social Formation in Early South India; 8.: Writing, Literacy and Social Formations in the Tamil South; 9.: Spread of Writing in the Tamil South and its Social Implications; 10.: Transition of Social Formation from Ancient to Early Medieval in the Tamil South; 11.: Historical Antecedents of the State Formation in the Deep South; 12.: Aspects ofthe Reservoir System of Irrigation in the Pandya Country; 13.: Pre-historic Life in Southern Western Ghats: Interpreting Rock-art; 14.: Aspects of Great Transformation in Ancient Kerala; 15.: The Formation of Caste Society in Kerala:Historical Antecedents; 16.: Temples as Sites of Social and Religious Interaction; 17.: The Course of Social Historiography of Kerala; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-806432-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 388
- Fecha Publicación: 08/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés