Name: People in Ancient Indian Villages
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 5 min 12 s
Description: Ancient Indian villages had three main classes of people. Let’s find out who they were, their roles in society, and whether they were the same across India.

Question

Ancient India witnessed two distinct phases of urbanisation: the First Urbanisation began during the Harappan period and the Second Urbanisation began during the Age of Buddha. These societies were based on certain social and cultural values quite different from those of rural societies. Describe those values and value systems highlighting the distinction with the prevalent rural culture.

Accepted Answer

Villages grow in number and some became a town. Books of travellers and accounts describe the culture of the particular society whenever they travel around.
Over time, with the help of travellers accounts, people get to know about the society that prevails during the particular period. These accounts mention how things changed, adaptability to things, and change in the value system.
Every society has its value system, and they work according to it, whether it is the division of society or trade among the society. By the Age of Buddha, towns grew in number and many major towns developed like Vaishali, Ayodha, kaushambi, Shravasti, Patliputra.

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