Rajasthan: Prehistoric and Early Historic Foundations

by V.N. Misra

The name, Rajasthan evokes many images, of Rajputs- tall, handsome men wearing colurful turbans, beautiful women, unmatched valour and chivalry, warm hospitality, reverence for life impressive forts and palaces, varied wildlife, and rich traditions of music, song, and dance. This book documents the long history of nomadic, hunting-gathering way of life during the stone age, emergence of agriculture-based villages during the Chalcolithic period and of towns and cities during the Bronze Age, expansion of settled life and emergence of new urban cetres and political states after the advent of iron, incorporation of hunter-gathererers and foreign invaders into the Hindu casts system, and the survival of hunter-gathererers into the present that has produced the economically and culturally vibrant present society of Rajasthan.