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Examine the view that the sacrifice was a ritual and a form of social exchange in Vedic India.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Aryans and Vedic Period

The Vedic yajna cannot be read merely as a devotional act directed at appeasing capricious gods; it was simultaneously a technical ritual apparatus and a mechanism through which wealth, status, and political authority circulated within Vedic society. To examine it only as theology is to miss the half of its function that historians of the…

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  • Sacrifice as a Structured Ritual
  • Sacrifice as Social and Economic Exchange
  • From Ritual Exchange to Political Economy

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