This book documents the long history of nomadic, hunting-gathering way of life during the stone age, emergence of agriculture-based villages during the Chalcolithic period and of towns and cities during the Bronze Age, expansion of settled life and emergence of new urban centres and political states after the advent of iron, incorporation of hunter-gatherers and foreign invaders into the Hindu caste system, and the survival of hunter-gatherers into the present that has produced the economically and culturally vibrant present society of Rajasthan.

ISBN 13: 9788173053214

ISBN 10: 8173053219

Year: 2007

Pages etc.: xxxix,441p., (108)pls.(18 col.), (68)figs & maps, bibl., ind., 29x23cm.

Binding: Hardbound

Subject(s): History