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Write short essay of not more than 200 words on: The formulation of social system in the later Vedic period.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Aryans and Vedic Period

The later Vedic period (c. 1000–600 BCE) saw the relatively fluid, kin-based Rigvedic order harden into a structured social system built on varna, gotra, ashrama, and the patriarchal household.

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