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Give a brief account of the social and economic conditions of the Later Vedic Aryans. What role did iron play in changing their political and economic life?

  • UPSC 1998
  • Aryans and Vedic Period

The Later Vedic period (c. 1000–500 BCE) marks the point at which the mobile, pastoral, tribally organized society of the Rigveda hardens into something recognizably closer to a settled, stratified, agrarian polity centred on the Ganga-Yamuna doab. The question of how much of that transformation can be credited to a single technology — iron —…

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  • Iron and the Transformation of Political and Economic Life

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