Early Indian Religion and Society

Ramendra Nath Nandi is former Professor of History, Patna University. His major publications are: The Ṛgveda: In its Historical Setting (2018); An Outline of the Aryan Civilization (2017); Ideology and Environment, Situating the Origin of Vedic Culture (2009); Aryans Revisited (2001); State Formation, Agrarian Growth and Social Change in Feudal South India, AD 600-1200 (2000); Prachin Bharat Me Dharma Ke Samajik Adhar (in Hindi, 1998); Social Roots of Religion in Ancient India (1986); Critical Edition of S.C. Nandimath's A Handbook of Virasaivism (London, 1942; revd. edn. 1979); and Religious Institutions and Cults in the Deccan (c. AD 600-1000) (1973).