Saturday, November 28, 2009

POLITICO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

POLITICO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

As already mentioned, northern India and the Deccan fell victim to political fragmentation. Nepal, Assam (Kamarupa), a11.d Kashmir were independent. The hill states of Chamba, Durgara Oammu) and Kulu came into being besides the various Rajput states already discussed above.

Feudalism emerged with the growing practice of rulers granting land or the revenue from land to officers in lieu of salary-a practice begun by the Satavahanas and Guptas. In time, those who had been given land grants claimed ownership of the land and became equivalent of vassals or feudatories. They displayed their allegiance to a king bv paying him a part of the land revenue, and maintained law and order in their own territory. In time, the surplus wealth of the feudatories and the king was used in conspicuous consumption while the peasants gradually got imp! ished. All the classes of society did not support the.n as a sense of identification with them was lacking. 1 too declined, for which one reason was the collapse 0 Roman empire and the Sassanid empire.

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