![]() ![]() Settled agrarian society was largely established in the indo-gangetic divide, upper Ganga valley and the yamuna doab by the later vedic times(1000-600 BC), and it was this relative sedentary structure which provided impetus for further development.Ī more sedentary and agrarian society, witnesses a rise in fertility leading to population growth, this in turn lead to stress on the socio-economic structure due to growing demand of food resources, the solution can either be production of food by increasing in-situ agricultural efficiency (which has its own climatic, geological and technological constraints) or migration of a part of population to a more fertile area. 6th century BCE marked an era of monumental changes in the historical arena of north India, the sociopolitical and economic transition which already started in the later vedic period of the preceding centuries, gained momentum and matured in the later period, manifesting itself in form of state, trade, towns, sociocultural movements and most distinctively in the apparent economic complexities, in contrast with the largely rural, clan based socio-economic structure of the later vedic period. ![]()
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