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Give an account of the Society in Northern and Central India since the death of Harsha to the Muslim conquest of North India

  • UPSC 1996
  • Early Medieval India, 750-1200

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The five and a half centuries between Harsha's death (647 CE) and the Turkish conquest of northern India were not a simple twilight before an inevitable Muslim victory; they were a period in which Indian society developed its own distinctive early-medieval logic — a fragmenting polity, a hardening caste order, a spreading landed hierarchy, and…

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  • The Political Backdrop: From a Centralised Kingdom to a Feudal Order
  • The Hardening and Proliferation of Caste
  • The Deteriorating Position of Women
  • The Growth of a Feudal Social Order
  • Religious and Moral Currents
  • Insularity and Its Political Costs
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