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Early Medieval Indian Society: A Study in Feudalisation, Perspectives in Social and Economic History of Early India Indian Feudalism is a book by Indian professor Ram Sharan Sharma . The book analyses the practice of land grants, which became considerable in the Gupta period and widespread in the post-Gupta period.
Ram Sharan Sharma (26 November 1919 – 20 August 2011 [1]) was an Indian historian and Indologist [2] who specialised in the history of Ancient and early Medieval India. [3] He taught at Patna University and Delhi University (1973–85) and was visiting faculty at University of Toronto (1965–1966).
Use of the term feudalism to describe India applies a concept of medieval European origin, according to which the landed nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in ...
Very few known Indian texts recording history before 15th century C.E. exist, hence, historical evidence for much of India's history comes through foreign historians. [22] [23] There is very little evidence of a native historiographical tradition in ancient India. [11] Al-Biruni stated the following about local Indian histriography: [10]
The revolt might have been the first peasant revolt in Indian history. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] However, the first phase of the revolt would more appropriately be described as a rebellion of feudal lords ( samantas ), who would have mobilized the peasants, and the last phase of the revolt was a spontaneous mass uprising.
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Jha completed his Senior Secondary Schooling from Board of Secondary Certification, West Bengal with First Division. He did Intermediate Examination of Arts with first division and Bachelor of Arts (honours) in History at University of Calcutta and then his MA in history at Patna University where he was a student of Professor R.S. Sharma, who was amongst the first of modern Indian historians ...
This includes Upinder Singh, RS Sharma (India's Ancient Past, p. 262), et al. I have no problems with Bhaskaravarmana (like Harshavardhana?) either and some scholars (including "Bhaskaravarmana" Dilip Chakrabarti prefer it), but going by hit count on Google Books, Bhaskaravarman (5570) trumps Bhaskaravarmana (165) by a large margin.