Question

social condition during later vedic age

Answer 1

The society had undergone a very major change during the Later Vedic period. This period witnessed an introduction of the caste system that was not very well defined, but which had come to stay with all its attendant evils.

Economic Life

The agriculture still occupied the main source of the income to the largest section of the Later Vedic society. It had improved its system of cultivation and many new crops like those of rice, wheat and oil seeds were introduced. There is a reference of a plough being dragged by as many as 24 bullocks