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THEME Kinship, Caste and Class THEME TWO THREE )))
53In the previous chapter we saw that there were severalchanges in economic and political life between c. 600 BCE and 600 CE. Some of these changes influenced societiesas well. For instance, the extension of agriculture intoforested areas transformed the lives of forest dwellers;craft specialists often emerged as distinct social groups;the unequal distribution of wealth sharpened often use textualtraditions to understand theseprocesses. Some texts lay downnorms of social behaviour; othersdescribe and occasionally commenton a wide range of social situationsand practices. We can also catch aglimpse of some social actors frominscriptions. As we will see, eachtext (and inscription) was writtenfrom the perspective of specificsocial categories.
families. It is evident in mantras in ritual texts such as the Rigveda. It is possible that these attitudes were shared by wealthy men and those who claimed high status, including Brahmanas. Producing “fine sons” Here is an excerpt of a mantra from …
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