Land system and rural society in early India

Contents;
GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;
ABBREVIATIONS;
Introduction;
Bhairabi Prasad Sahu;
Section I;
RURAL SETTLEMENTS;
1.Land-System as Reflected in Kau\ilya's Arthasiistra Sibesh Bhattacharya;
2. Village Life and Settlements in the Light of Vakataka Inscriptions
RN. Mishra;
3.Settlement Pattern in Lalgudi Taluk, Tiruchirapalli District, Tamil Nadu;
K V. Raman and P. Shanmugam
Section II;
THE CONCEPT OF VILLAGE COMMUNITY AND GENERAL PROBLEM OF OWNERSHIP OF LAND;
4. Ownership of Agricultural Land in Ancient India;
Lallanji GopaZ
5. Assignment to Officers and Royal Kinsmen in Early Medieval India c. AD 700-1200;
Krish,na Kanti Gopal
6.Merchan,ts and Landed Aristocracy in the Feudal Economy of Northern India: Eighth to Twelfth Century;
B.P. Mazumdar .
7. Property Rights in Medieval Tamil Nadu as seen from the Saledeeds in Chola Inscriptions;
y. Subbarayalu
8.Landownership and Succession in Medieval Karnataka;
C.R. Kuppuswamy
9.Village Communities in South India;
T. V. Mahalingam
10.Indian Village Community according to the KrsiPariiSara and some other Contemporary
Literary Sources;
Guyla Wojtilla
Section III;
AGRARIAN CHANGE, STRUCTURE OF RURAL SOCIETY AND RURAL UNREST;
11. The Peasant in Indian History
Irfan Habib ;
12. The Role of Peasants in the Early History of Tamilakam in South India;
M.C.S. Narayanan
13. From the Ancient Labour Tax to the Feudal Corvee: A Marxist Approach to the Study of Visti;
Marlene Njammasch
14. Landholding and Peasantry in the Brahmaputra Valley ;
c. Fifth-Thirteenth Centuries AD
Nayanjot Lahiri
15. The Socio-Economic Milieu of the Kerala Temple: A Functional Analysis c. AD 800-1200;
Rajan Gurukkal
16. Agriculture under the Kakatiyas of Warangal;
Y. Gopal Reddy
17. Landed Magnates as State Agents: The Gavadas under the Hoysalas in Karnataka;
Kesavan Veluthat
18. Immobility and Subjection of Indian Peasantry in Early Medieval Complex;
B.N.S. Yadava .
19. Problems of Peasant Protest in Early Medieval India;
R.S. Sharma
BIBLIOGRAPHY;
CONTRIBUTORS