01631nam a2200169Ia 4500008004100000020002300041041000800064082001300072100002500085245009200110250001600202260002700218300002900245504001600274520112800290650004301418240911s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a9788173201684qhbk  aeng  a934bBAR  aMohammad Nazrul Bari 0a Material life of Northern India, c. 600 BCE - 300 BCEb: an archaeo-literary evidences  a1st edition  bAgam Kalac2017aDelhi  axi, 226 p.bill.c23 cm.  aBib and Ref  aThe present monograph is a result of the comprehensive and scientific study of the Material Life of Northern India between C. 600 BC to 300 BC. For the better understanding of the contents, the author has presented a synthetic study of the twin sources viz. archaeological and literary sources within the limitations and scope of the given topic and available data. This period also marks the process of political fusion culminating in the first ever great empire of ancient India. Interestingly the material background of this period led to the origin of a number of sects and second urbanization. The book is also helpful to understand the state formation and social proliferation. The authors divides his data into deductions of food habits, construction of house, agricultural activities vis-a vis crops cultivated with the idea of seasonal variations and the irrigational resources exploited, the knowledge of varied technology applied in the making of objects of daily use in metals such as gold, silver and copper, objects of stone, bone, ivory and clay by the people of that remote past make the book worth reading.  aIndic literature History and criticism