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It discusses different views on the origin and nature of the state in ancient India along with stages and processes of state formation. It also examines the relevance of caste and kin-based collectivises to the construction of polity developments of political organisation in relation to their changing social and economic background and how religion and rituals were brought in the service of the ruling class.
Casparis et al. (Fri,) studied this question.