TY - BOOK AU - Ramendra Nath Nandi AU - Ramendra Nath Nandi TI - State formation, agrarian growth, and social change in feudal South India, c. AD 600-1200 SN - 9788173042904 U1 - 360 NAN PY - 2000/// CY - New Delhi PB - : Manohar Publishers & Distributors KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science N2 - This book underlines a preparatory phase (seventh-eighth centuries) marking the networking of fiefs and service tenements followed by an incubation time (ninth-tenth centuries) characterised by growing demands of surplus and the resulting extension of the arable, new drainage technique and increase in crop production. The final breakthrough stage (eleventh-twelfth centuries) was signalled by the reappearance of markets, minted money and urban centres ER -