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Land Measurement in Gupta India

Land Measurement in Gupta India LAND MEASUREMENT IN GUPTA INDIA BY S. K. MAITY (Jadavpur University, Calcutta) INTRODUCTION One of the most happy and prosperous periods of the history of India was that between roughly A.D. 3 20 and 5 S o, when much of the north of the sub- continent was ruled by the emperors of the Gupta line. This was the age of the great poet Kalidasa, and of the best of the cave paintings of Ajanta. It saw the most important parts of India under the control of a single authority, but one which ruled with a mildness exceptional for an ancient empire, and which allowed considerable devolution of power to local chiefs, and, in some parts of the country, to committees of leading citizens which, if not democratic, at least established in some degree the principle of government by discussion, which is to be found in operation also in other parts of Hindu India and at other periods. Some of the most significant economic documents of this period are the numerous copper-plate title deeds, which attest the purchase of land, and its do- nation to brahmans or religious corporations by members of the ruling family of the locality, by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

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Brill
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© 1957 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4995
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1568-5209
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10.1163/156852057X00065
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LAND MEASUREMENT IN GUPTA INDIA BY S. K. MAITY (Jadavpur University, Calcutta) INTRODUCTION One of the most happy and prosperous periods of the history of India was that between roughly A.D. 3 20 and 5 S o, when much of the north of the sub- continent was ruled by the emperors of the Gupta line. This was the age of the great poet Kalidasa, and of the best of the cave paintings of Ajanta. It saw the most important parts of India under the control of a single authority, but one which ruled with a mildness exceptional for an ancient empire, and which allowed considerable devolution of power to local chiefs, and, in some parts of the country, to committees of leading citizens which, if not democratic, at least established in some degree the principle of government by discussion, which is to be found in operation also in other parts of Hindu India and at other periods. Some of the most significant economic documents of this period are the numerous copper-plate title deeds, which attest the purchase of land, and its do- nation to brahmans or religious corporations by members of the ruling family of the locality, by

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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1957

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