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Excerpt from Lectures on the Economic Condition of Ancient India The following pages, my first attempt in writing in English, represent five of the six lectures delivered by me last year on "The Economic Condition of Ancient India," to the Post-Graduate students of my Alma-Mater, the University of Calcutta. The sixth lecture on "Industrial and Trading Organisation" is being incorporated in my next book, Prachina Bharata, while a short one on "The Ramayana from the Economic Point" has been added to the present work. It has not been found possible within the limits of half a dozen lectures, delivered on different occasions to batches of students, to deal at length with such a vast subject, and I was not able to arrange them in strict chronological order. Those attempted merely indicate its main sub-divisions; and I have illustrated my remarks, as far as possible, by full references to such internal evidence as is to be found in the literature of ancient India. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.