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( 13 ) The Bhāratīyan experiment is unparallelled and unique compared to the Egyptian and Sumerian ways. The
strangest phenomenon of the Bhāratīya culPeaceful Develop. ment throughout ture is its great and remarkable homogeneity in Bharatat
throughout the region with such supreme and unequalled prosperity. There is remarkable absence of the manifestation of the spirit of public display of wealth in buildings, decorations, monuments and inscriptions. The tools of violence are curiously weak. The Bhāratīyan people did not develop military and police power for internal and external trade. Peace reigned throughout the vastest Bhāratīyan region but it was maintained by the voluntary will of the people, not by force. We do not find fortified towns or cities till the end of the Third Millenium B. C.
This picture clearly reveals the basic character of the people. They lived like brothers in peace and happiness.
Though the pattern of earning was private, Absence of Social there was no greed and vulgarity attached Tensions.
to it. There was no private or public display of wealth. The disparities in incomes and possessions appear to be negligible hence there were no classes. There may be high and low people but that was not on account of the difference in material possessions. That was due to the inherent merit in intelligencejand character of the individual. The society was prosperous and happy for want of social tensions. It was an integrated society.
The position of women in such a society could not but be of equality and prestige. She was economically indepen
dent, and enjoyed status and freedom. She Status of Women.
**** could attain the position of a priestess. She could go anywhere without molestation. All landed property descended in the female line from mother to daughter,
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