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What kind of changes were visualised by historians on Indian feudalism? Examine critically.
- UPSC 2012
- Early Medieval India, 750-1200
Beyond the definitional question of whether the word "feudalism" itself fits, the Indian feudalism school made a specific set of substantive claims about what actually changed in the post-Gupta centuries — in the structure of political power, the shape of the economy, the fortunes of towns and trade, the standing of the peasantry, and, less…
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- Political Change: The Fragmentation of Sovereignty
- Economic Change: Ruralisation and the "Closed" Village Economy
- Decline of Trade and Urban Centres
- Subjection of the Peasantry
- Social Change: Caste Reordering and New Social Groups
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