History of India: ancient and medieval / Vedic age
Rigvedic society and religion
Practise 1 PYQConcepts to cover
- Rigvedic religion: nature deities (Indra, Agni, Varuna, Soma) and sacrifice; no temples or images
- Purusha-sukta and the first four-fold varna reference; tribal, largely egalitarian society
- Patriarchal family, women in assemblies, absence of child marriage and sati; the Atharvaveda on household rites and fields (kshetra-patni)