HISTORY OF MITHILA, VAJJI & ANGA IN INDIA & NEPAL - VOLUME II Part 2

Contents
PART I - LAND, ENVIRONMENT AND THE MAKING OF HUMAN LANDSCAPES........................................................................................................ 23
Chapter 1 - The Physical Foundations of Society.............................................................................. 24
Chapter 2 - Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence.......................................................................... 32
Chapter 3 - CHALCOLITHIC AND EARLY AGRARIAN COMMUNITIES...................... 42
Chapter 4 - ARCHAEOLOGY OF FOOD AND EVERYDAY LIFE.......................................... 49
Chapter 5 - ENVIRONMENT, MOBILITY AND SETTLEMENT.......................................... 57
PART II - EARLY HISTORIC SOCIETY: VIDEHA, VAJJI AND ANGA..... 63

PART XV - SYNTHESIS................................................................................. 1271
Chapter 143 - The longue durée of social change.......................................................................... 1272
Chapter 144 - From Subsistence to Market Integration............................................................... 1281
Chapter 145 - Household, Caste, Class and Gender across Time............................................... 1290
Chapter 146 - Riverine Ecology and Economic History.............................................................. 1299
Chapter 147 - Language as Social Infrastructure........................................................................... 1307
Chapter 148 - India and Nepal: One Interaction Zone, Multiple Political Economies............ 1315
Chapter 149 - Cultural Persistence, Reinvention and Modern Institutions.............................. 1324
Chapter 150 - Conclusion: Socio-Cultural-Economic Histories without Timeless Essences.. 1332
Selected Chronology........................................................................................... 1341
Glossary................................................................................................................ 1360
Historical Place-Name Concordance................................................................. 1345
Language-Name Concordance............................................................................ 1346
Consolidated Bibliography................................................................................. 1347
Index.................................................................................................................... 1399