Author: Sircar, D.C., editor:
Title: Social Life in Ancient India
Description: Calcutta, University of Calcutta Press, 1971. orig. wrappers. 21x13cm, (4), 169 pp, Centre of Advanced Study in Ancient Indian History & Culture,Lectures & Seminars,nr. VI - B.. minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contains 16 papers, including: J. Rai "Social Mobility in Ancient India"; D.R.Das "Go-grahana"; A.K. Chatterjee "Misogynistic Ideas in Ancient Indian Literature"; J.R.Haldar "Caste in Early Buddhist Literature"; K. Saha "The Brahmana in Pali Literature"; N.N.Bhattacharya "Matrilineal Inheritance in India"; K. Bajpeyi "Women in Early Mathura Epigraphs"; B.N. Sharma "Varna-vyavastha & Caste System in the Seventh Century A.D."; T.V. Mahalingam "The Saivas in the Society of the Pallava Age"; M.Mukhopadhyay "Social Life of the Gods in Sanskrit Literature", D.C.Sircar "South Indians in Bengal"; A.K. Chakravarti "Sources of Slavery in Ancient Cambodia"; S. Bandyopadhyay "Gambling in Early Indian Epigraphs", etc.

Keywords: Ancient India, Epigraphy, Sanskrit Literature, Buddhism, Pali Literature, Social History, Inscriptions, ,