A good deal of the economic life of the country, as has been already apparent, was controlled by the State. The State was the largest employer of labour. It controlled and organised the agriculture, industry and the trade of the country. The State had a large part of the agriculture of the country directly in its own hands in its [...]
The most valuable description of India's prosperity and wealth by Yuan Chuang combined with that of Bana and the epigraphic and numismatic evidences give us a detailed account of economic life of the people during the seventh century AD. With the dawn of this epoch-making century a new era of peace and order was inaugurated by Harsha after the political [...]
In this article we will discuss about the two main sources of ancient Indian history. The sources are: 1. Literary Sources 2. Archaeological Sources. 1. Literary Sources: Amongst literary sources, we include all written records in the form of texts, essays or descriptions. It has been mainly divided into two parts, religious and secular as follows: (A) Religious Literature: This [...]