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“The origin of the territorial republics has been traced to the reaction against the pattern of life that evolved in the later Vedic period.” Analyse.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Period of Mahajanapadas

By the close of the Vedic age, the loose tribal polity (jana) of the Rigvedic pastoral clans had given way to a territorially defined state (janapada), and Panini's grammar confirms that political identity now attached to the land a people occupied rather than to the tribe itself. When the Anguttara Nikaya enumerates the sixteen mahajanapadas…

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  • The Later Vedic Order Being Reacted Against
  • The Reaction Thesis and Its Evidentiary Support
  • Two Distinct Roots: Survival and Subversion
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