The study of the state in India between 1000 and 1700 has become one of the most controversial issues n contemporary Indian historiography. Various scholars, and in some cases ‘schools’, have come forward with different approaches and conceptual models to define the Indian state and its key features.
At the simplest level, feudalism can be best defined as a political, economic, social and cultural system that emerged or at least, first came to light, in ninth-century- Europe and lasted till about the fifteenth century. It was characterized by a complex unity. It was a mode of production dominated by the land and a natural economy, in which labour nor the products of labour were commodities. The immediate producer – the peasant – was united …show more content…
8th century CE to the 13th century CE. The issue that concerns feudalism in India is two-fold – whether there was feudalism in India during the early medieval period and if there was, then how far was the Indian society ‘feudal’ when compared to European feudal …show more content…
One of the first writings to refer to the growth of feudalism in India was by B. N. Datta and S.A. Dange, who simply transplanted the European concept of feudalism onto Indian soil, and spoke of an Indian variant, but it is only after 1947 that the debate on Indian feudalism gained momentum with the coming of the writings of D. D. Kosambi R.S. Sharma, BNS Yadav, Harbans Mukhia and other promienent scholars. Though, Irfan Habib, the leading marxist historian of the period, however, put on record his distance from 'Indian feudalism' even as he vehemently criticised the Asiatic Mode of
At the simplest level, feudalism can be best defined as a political, economic, social and cultural system that emerged or at least, first came to light, in ninth-century- Europe and lasted till about the fifteenth century. It was characterized by a complex unity. It was a mode of production dominated by the land and a natural economy, in which labour nor the products of labour were commodities. The immediate producer – the peasant – was united …show more content…
8th century CE to the 13th century CE. The issue that concerns feudalism in India is two-fold – whether there was feudalism in India during the early medieval period and if there was, then how far was the Indian society ‘feudal’ when compared to European feudal …show more content…
One of the first writings to refer to the growth of feudalism in India was by B. N. Datta and S.A. Dange, who simply transplanted the European concept of feudalism onto Indian soil, and spoke of an Indian variant, but it is only after 1947 that the debate on Indian feudalism gained momentum with the coming of the writings of D. D. Kosambi R.S. Sharma, BNS Yadav, Harbans Mukhia and other promienent scholars. Though, Irfan Habib, the leading marxist historian of the period, however, put on record his distance from 'Indian feudalism' even as he vehemently criticised the Asiatic Mode of