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How far is it correct to say that changes in the post-Vedic economy gave birth to new religious movement in India?

  • UPSC 2015
  • Period of Mahajanapadas

The sixth century BC witnessed an extraordinary religious ferment in the middle Gangetic plains — traditions record as many as sixty-two contending sects, of which Buddhism and Jainism alone survived as organised religions of lasting consequence. That this upheaval coincided almost exactly with the region's transition to an iron-based agrarian economy and its first wave…

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  • Iron, Agrarian Expansion and the Crisis of Cattle Sacrifice
  • Urban Growth, Trade and the Rise of the Vaishya
  • Property, Inequality and the Ascetic Ideal
  • The Limits of a Purely Economic Reading
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