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State and Government in Ancient India. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 81-208-1009-0. Drekmeier, Charles (1962). Kingship and Community in Early India. Stanford: Stanford UP. ISBN 0-8047-0114-8. Ghoshal, U.N. (1959). A History of Indian Political Ideas. Bombay: Oxford UP. Ghoshal, U.N. (1972). Contributions to the History of the Hindu Revenue ...
Their state, or at least part of it, was called "Ariaca" according to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. They were successors to the Indo-Scythians and were contemporaneous with the Kushan Empire, which ruled the northern part of the Indian subcontinent and were possibly their overlords, and the Satavahana dynasty of Andhra who ruled in ...
The history of India up to (and including) the times of the Buddha, with his life generally placed into the 6th or 5th century BCE, is a subject of a major scholarly debate. The vast majority of historians in the Western world accept the theory of Aryan invasion with c. 1500-1200 BCE dates for the displacement of Indus civilization by Aryans ...
2 Kakustha and Devaraja: 760–780 3 Vatsaraja: 780–800 4 Nagabhata II: 800–833 5 Ramabhadra: 833–836 6 Mihira Bhoja or Bhoja I 836–885 7 Mahendrapala I: 885–910 8 Bhoja II: 910–913 9 Mahipala I: 913–944 10 Mahendrapala II: 944–948 11 Devapala 948–954 12 Vinayakapala 954–955 13 Mahipala II 955–956 14 Vijayapala II 956 ...
The kinship terms of Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) differ from the English system in certain respects. [1] In the Hindustani system, kin terms are based on gender, [2] and the difference between some terms is the degree of respect. [3] Moreover, "In Hindi and Urdu kinship terms there is clear distinction between the blood relations and affinal ...
Rājpūt (from Sanskrit rājaputra meaning "son of a king"), also called Thākur, [5] is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the northern part of the Indian subcontinent.
Usage of the term Rajanya possibly indicates the 'kinsmen of the Rajan' (i.e., kinsmen of the ruler) had emerged as a distinct social group then, [10] such that by the end of the Vedic period, the term rajanya was replaced by Kshatriya; where rajanya stresses kinship with the Rajan and Kshatriya denotes power over a specific domain. [10]
Kinship can refer both to the patterns of social relationships themselves, or it can refer to the study of the patterns of social relationships in one or more human cultures (i.e. kinship studies). Over its history, anthropology has developed a number of related concepts and terms in the study of kinship, such as descent, descent group, lineage ...