MONEY WEALTH AND INEQUALITY : Book 1: ECONOMIC HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA

<p>This book Money Wealth and Inequality &mdash; Book I: Economic History of<br/>&nbsp;Ancient India was written with a single purpose: to understand how the<br/>&nbsp;economic foundations of early Indian civilization shaped the structures of wealth<br/>&nbsp;inequality technology and social organization that continue to influence the<br/>&nbsp;subcontinent today.</p><p><br/>&nbsp;For centuries discussions of ancient India have been dominated by mythology<br/>&nbsp;incomplete interpretations or narratives that obscure the material realities of<br/>&nbsp;life. This work attempts to bridge that gap by placing archaeological evidence<br/>&nbsp;economic logic and historical continuity at the center of analysis. The story of<br/>&nbsp;ancient India is not a tale of static perfection but one of continuous innovation<br/>&nbsp;&mdash;from the chipped stones of the Paleolithic period to the polished craftsmen of<br/>&nbsp;the Neolithic from the metallurgists of the Copper Age to the urban planners<br/>&nbsp;of the Indus Valley and from the pastoral economy of the Rig Vedic age to the<br/>&nbsp;agrarian transformations of the Brahmana period.</p><p>&nbsp;This book is the first in a multi-volume series exploring how economic systems<br/>&nbsp;&mdash;tools technology trade property money and institutions &mdash; evolved over<br/>&nbsp;thousands of years and shaped human experience. The aim is not merely to list<br/>&nbsp;historical facts but to reconstruct how people lived worked produced traded<br/>&nbsp;governed and imagined their world.</p>