The process of transition from pre-state to state in early north and south India.

MHI-04: POLITICAL STRUCTURES IN INDIA

Course Code: MHI-04

Assignment Code: MHI-04/AST/TMA/2016-17

Total Marks: 100

  Q1:- Explain the process of transition from pre-state to state in early north and south India.

Theoretically the state is not an institution of universal or ubiquitous nature to be located in any historically existing society, for it is found only in a differentiated economy or stratified society. Logically, then the following ideas emerge: non- stratified societies are pre-state societies; the origin of the state is not external; the state is inevitably sui generis; it gets neither diffused nor transplanted and; the concept of secondary state formation is a misnomer. The most crucial question, therefore, is the nature of the social formation that presupposes the absence or presence of a state. In history the state appeared as kingdoms and empires that were institutional outcomes of political processes in class structured societies. Hence we equate the state in history with the dynastic rule or monarchy and study the history of state formation as the history of the transformation of the chiefdom into the kingdom.
Our understanding of the transition to the state in early India has developed and been refined over decades through painstaking investigation by scholars. What have emerged are possible scenarios that may help us trace what was, in any case, a complex complicated process.

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