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How did the Varnashrama Dharma manifest the increasing social complexities in the Gupta and post-Gupta period arising from social and economic developments?

  • UPSC 2021
  • Regional States during Gupta Era

The varnashrama framework of the Gupta and post-Gupta age was never a static blueprint quietly reproducing itself; it was a normative order under continuous strain from land grants, caste proliferation, the absorption of tribes and foreigners, and shifting production relations. To ask how varnashrama "manifested" complexity is to ask how a fourfold scheme designed for…

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  • Brahmanical Ascendancy and the Land-Grant Economy
  • Caste Proliferation: Absorbing Tribes and Foreigners
  • The Hardening Edge: Untouchability and the Shudra Paradox
  • Gender and the Ambiguities of Stridhana
  • Labour, Coinage, and the Economic Substratum
  • Resistance Within the Order

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