Question

What are the sources to reconstruct the Early Vedic Civilization? a descriptive answer needed....

Answer 1

The Vedic period (or Vedic age) (ca.1750–500 BCE) was the period inIndian history during which the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, were composed.[note 1]During the early part of the Vedic period, the Indo-Aryans settled into northern India, bringing with them their specific religious traditions. The associated culture (sometimes referred to as Vedic civilization[note 2]) was initially a tribal, pastoral society centred in the northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent; it spread after 1200 BCE to the Ganges Plain, as it was shaped by increasing settled agriculture, a hierarchy of four social classes, and the emergence of monarchical, state-level polities.[3][4]The end of the Vedic period witnessed the rise of large, urbanized states as well as of shramana movements (including Jainism and Buddhism) which challenged the Vedic orthodoxy.[5] Around the beginning of the Common Era, the Vedic tradition formed one of the main constituents of the so-called "Hindu synthesis"[6]

Answer 2

There are both the archaeological and the literary sources available that can help us to reconstruct the history of the early Vedic period. In the literary sources, the single and most important source is the Rig Veda. Rig Veda is the only written source of the early Vedic period that provides us with an enormous amount of information about the social, political and economic conditions during the early Vedic age. Besides this, archaeological sources such as brick structures and tools and other artifacts help us to understand the living conditions of people.