Most Ancient Aryan Society

Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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( 291 ) production was increasing. Money was highly developing trade and commerce. People were taking their enterprises to the sea and the international trade in the West was vigorously extending Industrial revolution takes place in Europe. Europe witnesses literary and artistic renaissance. The institutions of the family and the private property were largely enhancing the people's power and authority. The independence of the human spirit was asserting itself. People asked for share in the fruits of feudalism. The principle of the association of people's representation was recognised. Parliament was gaining more power for the people in England. Feudalism as a state theory had begun to wane in Europe in the fourteenth century A. D. Feudalism engaged in many religious and secular wars for winning territories but the method was day by day growing outmoded. The industrial progress was enhancing the power of money over that of the land and that became an attractive God of the newer society. Feudalism had now to assume a newer shape. Money becomes God.
The essence of feudalism exhibits the same Āryan tribal characteristics. The nobility headed by monarchy
Features of and the priesthood are the beneficiaries. The Āryan Feudalism common people are partly also the beneficiaries in the loot and plunder of the foreign people and from the foreign countries. Serfs and slaves are exploited in agriculture and industry. The common people do not enjoy the same share of the tribal feudal economy as they did in the Gaņa age. Their share is reduced and the share of their new Ganapati and Devas is increased. But they had to work for internal tribal production and act as mercenaries in war against the foreign people. That causes dissatisfaction. They are still the inseparable parts of the feudal tribal machine with lesser profits. The days of the