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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

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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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  • Social Conditions
  • Economic Conditions
  • Iron and the Transformation of Political and Economic Life
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