<Articles>A Study of social Structure under the Gupta Dynasty (VI-VIII Centuries)

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  • <論説>グプタ朝 (西紀四-八世紀) 印度社会の一考察 (上)
  • <論説>グプタ朝 (西紀四-八世紀) 印度社会の一考察 (上)

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Abstract

The discovery of a number of deeds inscribed on bronze plates dated preIslamic ages in India seems to throw a new light on the study of the village community in India, which has been little explored due to scarcety of data. During the period under the Gupta dynasty, IV-VIII centuries, blood relationship as binding forces of the village community persisted, though declining, and sub-clans splitted from the original clan constituted the kernel of village association. In the village there was discrimination between the full members on the one hand and the unfree men and immigrants on the other. Such discrimination will be seen in the mode of alloting land, i.e. allotment within the boundary of the village and that on its border, as well as in the taxation system. Antagonism between the king and the village community emerged as the result of dispute over the right of cultivating uncultivated soil. In spite of such burning problems the village community had continued to grow until the Muslims invaded India and effected a wholesale change in social structure, imposing the Zamindār as a new taxation system.

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  • 史林

    史林 34 (4), 330-364, 1951-08-01

    THE SHIGAKU KENKYUKAI (The Society of Historical Research), Kyoto University

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  • CRID
    1390290699825198080
  • NII Article ID
    120006816481
  • NII Book ID
    AN00119179
  • DOI
    10.14989/shirin_34_330
  • HANDLE
    2433/249003
  • ISSN
    03869369
  • Text Lang
    ja
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    • CiNii Articles
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