Money, Wealth and Inequality

This book-Money, Wealth, and Inequality: Book I - Economic History of Ancient India-has been written with a single guiding purpose: to understand how the economic foundations of early Indian civilization shaped the enduring structures of wealth, inequality, technology, and social organization that continue to influence the subcontinent today.For centuries, interpretations of ancient India have been dominated by mythology, romanticism, and fragmentary narratives that often obscure the material realities of life. This work seeks to bridge that gap by placing archaeological evidence, economic reasoning, and historical continuity at the center of analysis. The history of ancient India is not a tale of static perfection; it is a story of continuous innovation-beginning with the chipped stone tools of the Paleolithic age, advancing through the polished craftsmanship of the Neolithic, the metallurgical experiments of the Chalcolithic era, the urban sophistication of the Indus Valley Civilization, and the agrarian transformations of the Vedic and Brahmanical periods.This volume is the first in a multi-part series examining how economic systems-tools, technology, trade, property relations, monetary forms, and institutional structures-evolved across millennia and shaped human life. The aim is not merely to catalogue historical facts, but to reconstruct how people lived, worked, produced, traded, governed, and conceptualized their world.

Pages: 148, Paperback, Notion Press