Question

6. Write a note on the caste system prevalent during the period of janapadas and mahajanapadas.

Answer 1

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In the sixth century BCE, there was a rise in the development of the Mahajanapada or great country.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Mahajanapadas, literally “Great Kingdoms” (from Maha, “great,” and Janapada “foothold of a tribe,” “country”), refers to 16 monarchies and ‘republics’ that stretched across the Indo-Gangetic plains from modern-day Afghanistan to Bangladesh in the sixth century B.C.E., prior to and during the rise of Buddhism in India. They represent a transition from a semi-nomadic tribal society to an agrarian-based society with a vast network of trade and a highly-organized political structure. Many of these “kingdoms” functioned as republics governed by a general assembly and a council of elders led by an elected “king consul.” The Mahajanapadas are the historical context of the Sanskrit epics, such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana as well as Puranic literature (the itihasa). They were also the political and social context in which Buddhism and Jainism emerged and developed.

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