Indian feudalism, c. AD 300-1200/ (Record no. 1636)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781403928634 (pbk.) |
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| International Standard Book Number | 1403928630 (pbk.) |
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| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 954.02 |
| Item number | SHA/I |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sharma, Ram Sharan |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Indian feudalism, c. AD 300-1200/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Ram Sharan Sharma. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 3rd. ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Delhi : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Macmillan India, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxv,392p. : |
| Dimensions | 22cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Reprint of the third edition; originally published in 1965.<br/>Includes bibligraphy and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | ORIGINS AND FIRST PHASE<br/>(c. AD 300-750)<br/> Defining feudalism Grant of administrative rights along with<br/>land charters to priests Grants for religious and ideological services Grants for fiscal services Officers paid through land grants in<br/>post-Gupta times Villages granted to secular parties for religious<br/>tmd also for secular purposes Terms for officers and administrative<br/>units indicate land grants Feudal connotation of amdtya,<br/>kumardmdtya and other titles Hereditary officers Growing<br/>semifeudal role of village headmen Origin and growth of the<br/>sdmantas and their obligations Loss of royal monopoly over the<br/>possession of horses and elephants Litde evidence for commenda<br/>tion Grant of barren and cultivated land Differences between<br/>Bengal and Madhya Pradesh in respect of land charters Exten<br/>sion of cultivation through land grants The mode of agriculture<br/>in setded areas Agriculture in tribal areas Emergence of temples<br/>and brahmanas as landlords Organisation of agricultural<br/>production in religious and secular holdings Position of the peasantry Visti and contribution of rent in labour Labour service<br/>and the European feudal practice Servitude of the peasants<br/>through transfer to the beneficiaries The nature and extent of<br/>serfdom breakdown of slavery and emergence of serfdom Rise of sudra peasants ’Self-sufficient’ economic units Paucity of coins<br/>Decline of urbanism and of trade and commerce Feudalisadon<br/>of guilds and merchants Irrigation, a local responsibility<br/> Agrahdras and European manors Comparison with the<br/>European feudal organisation Substantial landlords and servile<br/>peasantry<br/>II FEUDAL POLITYIN THREE KINGDOMS<br/>(c. AD 750-1000)<br/> Pala grants of fiscal and administradve rights Giving the secular administradon of criminal law and jusdce to religious beneficiaries<br/>common in the Pala kingdom Pradh^a royal grants specified<br/>only fiscal rights Feudatories of Pratiharas gave both fiscal and<br/>administradve rights of private jusdce Many religious charters carrying fiscal and administradve concessions in the Rasp-akuta<br/>kingdom Comparadve paucity of epigraphic evidence regarding<br/>secular grants Specified taxes as payment for some Rasp-akuta<br/>officials Subinfeudadon under the Rasprakutas and Pratiharas<br/> Right of ejection conferred on the donees under the Ra§pakutas<br/> A comparadve view of officials in the three kingdoms Growing feudalisation of officials Kinship and vassalship Powers,<br/>privileges and obligations of the vassals The nature of the<br/>overlords control over his feudatory Role of vassals in central and local politics Elevation of the village elders Feudalisadon<br/>of guilds under the Rasprakutas No fixed capital for the Palas Imposition of clan aristocracies over setded peasants through<br/>the duodecimal system Indentificadon of feudal elements in<br/>early medieval polity<br/>III FEUDAL ECONOMYIN THREE KINGDOMS<br/>(c. AD 750-1000)<br/> Growth of a class of landed barons at the cost of royal and peasant<br/>authority over land Grantee’s increasing individual rights in land<br/>at the cost of communal agrarian rights Effects of ejection and<br/>subinfeudadon on the peasants Members of the ruling Guijara-<br/>Pratih^a tribe reduced bytheir kinsmen to the position of semi-<br/>serfs Practice of forced agriculture in Rajasthan and extension<br/>of forced labour Economic subjection of the peasantry and scope<br/>for new impositions by the grantees in the Pala and Pratihara<br/>charters No legal redress for the peasants Billeting of cdfas and<br/>fiAafoson the villages in Bengal, Bihar, Bundelkhand and Chamba Feudalisadon of trade and commerce under the P^as and<br/>Pratiharas: Little scope for marketisation and growth of self-sufficient units in the countryside Restricdons on ardsans Local weights and measures and decrease in money exchange Trade<br/>in luxury objects Elements in feudal economy Extra-economic<br/>methods for the exploitadon of the peasantry<br/>IV EARLY MEDIAEVAL LAND RIGHTS<br/>(c. AD 500-1200) Debate regarding royal ownership and individual ownership of<br/>land Evidence for communal rights from Vedic to Gupta dmes Curtailment of communal rights and growth of royal rights<br/> Gupta law-books and other records on royal possession Nature<br/>of individual occupation of land down to pre-Gupta times<br/> Growth of individual rights in land in Gupta and post-Gupta dmes Resolving contradictory views of the lawgivers on land rights<br/> Comparison with land rights in medieval Europe Comparison<br/>with land rights under Muslim rule<br/>V THE HEYDAY OF POLITICAL FEUDALISM<br/>(c. AD 1000-1200) Complete polidcal disintegradon on the break-up of the GuijaraPradhara empire Origins of the principalides through service<br/>grants Service grants of land fewer in Assam, Bengal and Bihar More service grants in Orissa than Assam, Bengal and Bihar<br/>taken together Frequent land grants to military officials under<br/>the Candellas in Bundelkhand More grants to civil officials under<br/>the G^iadavalas in Uttar Pradesh Appordonment of land as<br/>fiefs among the kinsmen under the Cahamanas All C^amana<br/>administradon not a family affair Some Paramara land charters to members of the ruling clan Few epigraphic records of grants<br/>to Paramara officials Paramara vassals and feudatories Areas<br/>set apart for the personal upkeep of the ruling chief and his<br/>kinsmen under the Caulukyas Large territories to vassals and<br/>high officers under the Caulukyas Regular and exclusive levies<br/>for payment to officers under the Kalacuris, Candellas,<br/>Gahadavalas and Cahamanas Origin and evoludon of levies for<br/>officials Functions and obligadons of the vassals Military<br/>assignees as a numerous class Part played by vassals in polidcs<br/>and administradon, though not as an organised collecdve body<br/> High watermark of the feudalisadon of officials Draft of land<br/>charters to officials Agni Purana and Lekhapaddhati on the<br/>fiefholders Land grants for vassals and high officials well<br/>recognised in the 12th century texts Feudal hierarchy described<br/>in texts on art and architecture Summary of the chapter VI CLIMAX AND CRACKS<br/> A regional survey of land grants to religious beneficiaries<br/> Largest number of recorded landed intermediaries in the 11 th-<br/>12th centuries Extension of the demesne of the landed beneficiaries because of undefined boundaries Transfer of<br/>enlarged agrarian rights and resources Distinction between<br/>receiving usufruct and rights of ownership Increase in<br/>subinfeudation Service grants even for minor functionaries<br/> Transfer of peasants and artisans along with the land<br/> Enumeration of taxes levied from the peasant Peasant<br/>contribution for the fees and maintenance of various royal ofihcials<br/> Feudalisadon of crafts and commerce in Rajasthan, Malwa and<br/>Gujarat Climax of feudal economy Dents in feudal economy-<br/>colonising activities of the beneficiaries restricted Disappearance<br/>of forced labour under the Paramaras, * Chaulukyas and<br/>Cahamanas Formation of larger economic units in the<br/>countryside Cash payments levied from artisans and traders in<br/>Western India Revival of towns and trade Place of consumer<br/>goods in foreign trade Cultivation of commercial crops and revival of trade The use of araghatta and improvement in<br/>shipbuilding Internal trade helped by better transport<br/> Revival of money coinage A picture of contrasts<br/>VII THE SEGMENTARY STATE AND<br/>THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE<br/> Fieldwork versus historical method Concept of the state<br/> The Alur society not a state Ritual suzerainty and political<br/>suzerainty Ritual suzerainty and the Cola kingdom<br/> Segmentary concept and the development of the Cola polity<br/> The segmentary state and the Rajput polity North Indian state - segmentary or feudal? Asiatic mode of production<br/> Caste and the state Origin of the state Problems of transition<br/> Inadequacy of the theory of the segmentary state<br/>VIII HOW FEUDAL WAS INDIAN FEUDALISM?<br/> Organisation of tribal society Concept of peasant society<br/> Feudalism defined Variations in feudalism Difference<br/>between serfdom and feudalism Control of means of<br/>production by landlord * Four graded stages of land rights in the same piece of land Terms used for peasants in mediaeval<br/>inscriptions and literature EflFective control over means of production Passages of changes in the methods and"relations of production Feudalism in paddy-producing areas Outcome<br/>of forced labour Limitations of the appearance of landlords and<br/>subject peasantry Features of caste system Development of jajmani system Expansion of irrigation facilities The feudal<br/>versus the segmentary state Concluding observations<br/>CONCLUSION<br/> Critical characteristics of a feudal formation found in early medieval India Origin and development of Indian feudalism through land grants Uneven process of creating a class of landlords Rich terminology in epigraphs for various types of vassals Causes of the subjection of the Indian peasantry<br/> Evidence regarding the reaction of peasants Self-sufficient<br/>economy and decay of trade and towns * The historical role of early Indian feudalism Some similarities between Indian<br/>feudalism and its European counterpart Feudalism not identical<br/>with administrative decentralism, but a form of social order<br/> Stages in early Indian feudalism |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Social classes |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Feudalism |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Political History |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Political Structures |
| Geographic subdivision | Medieval India |
| General subdivision | History |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Economic Relations |
| Geographic subdivision | Medieval India |
| General subdivision | History |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 31/05/2016 | 954.02 SHA/I | P39957 | 15/06/2024 | 15/06/2024 | General Books |