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Describe the economic and social conditions of the people living in rural areas from c. 600 BCE to 600 CE.

Answer:

There was a differentiation amongst the people of rural are as:

1. Economic condition of the cultivators was miserable, as landlords controlled all the money and production.

2. During this period, agricultural settlements emerged in many parts of the sub-continent, including North India, Deccan plateau and other parts of Karnataka.

3. After marriage girl had to give up her father?s gotra and opt her husband?s gotra.

4. Brahmans claimed that they were ranked first while placing groups classified as Sudras and untouchables at the bottom of the social order. Positions within the order were supposedly determined by birth.