Indian Feudalism (book)

2005 book by Ram Sharan Sharma

Indian Feudalism

Third edition cover

Author| Ram Sharan Sharma
Language| English
Subject| History of India, Ancient India
Publisher| Macmillan Publishers India Ltd., 3rd Revised Edition, Delhi

Publication date

| 2005
Publication place| India
Preceded by| India's Ancient Past
Followed by| Early Medieval Indian Society: A Study in Feudalisation, Perspectives in Social and Economic History of Early India

Indian Feudalism is a book by Indian professor Ram Sharan Sharma. The book analyses the practice of land grants, which became considerable in the Gupta period and widespread in the post-Gupta period. It shows how this led to the emergence of a class of landlords, endowed with fiscal and administrative rights superimposed upon a class of peasantry which was deprived of communal agrarian rights.

Professor Sharma studies in detail the basic relationships in early medieval society down to the eve of the Ghorian conquests. He argues in favour of a "feudalism largely realising the surplus from peasants mainly in kind through superior rights in their land and through forced labour, which is not found on any considerable scale... after the Turkish conquest of India."[1]

The third revised edition of the book was published by Macmillan Publishers in 2005.

## See also

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* Indian feudalism

## References

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1. ^ Habib, Irfan (9 August 1997). "History and interpretation". Frontline. Archived from the original on 22 April 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2009.

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Books by R.S. Sharma

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* Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India
* Sudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order Down to Circa A D 600
* Perspectives in Social and Economic History of Early India
* Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India
* Urban Decay in India (c. 300-c. 1000)
* Advent of the Aryans in India
* Looking for the Aryans
* India's Ancient Past
* Indian Feudalism
* Rethinking India's Past

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