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Discuss the evolution of the State institution and taxation system from the Rigvedic period to the later Vedic period.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Aryans and Vedic Period

Between roughly 1500 BCE and 600 BCE, Vedic political organisation travelled a considerable distance — from a mobile, kin-based tribal polity in which the chief's authority was checked by popular assemblies and revenue was a matter of voluntary gift, to a territorially rooted kingdom in which hereditary kingship claimed divine sanction and taxation had become…

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  • The Rigvedic Polity: Tribe Before Territory
  • Rigvedic Taxation: Gift Before Levy
  • The Later Vedic Transformation: From Jana to Janapada
  • Later Vedic Taxation: From Voluntary Bali to Structured Revenue
  • Conclusion

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