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Write short note : Impact of Buddhism on Indian society

  • UPSC 2000
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Buddhism arose in the Gangetic plain of the sixth–fifth century BCE as a sramanic (renunciatory) movement, and its challenge was organisational before it was doctrinal: it attacked sacrifice, the priestly monopoly of scripture and the ranking of worth by birth. Its impact on Indian society is therefore best read institutionally.

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  • A challenge to the Vedic social order
  • The sangha as a new form of association
  • Urbanism, trade and the state
  • Absorption, decline and return
  • Conclusion

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