SOSC 1733 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: South Asia, Maurya Empire, Functional Requirement
29 Oct 2018
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Introduction: historical perspectives, models of urban structure, documentary. Indus valley civilization (3000 15000 b. c: the aryan hindus (since 1500 bc, the dravidians, the muslims, the europeans. November 15th sosc: religion plays a role, distributed along these 4 main casts, exam: 4 castes. Residential patterns: were based on the function based 4 caste social system, there was spatial distribution of castes: brahmin, kshatriya, vaishya and shudra, not everybody was allowed to live anywhere, had to belong to a cast. It"s a form of hierarchy from top to bottom. The kshatriya: constituted the ruling and military elite, their role was to protect society by fighting in wartime and governing in peacetime, they were at the top, were military elite, responsible for protection during wartime. Brahmins: responsible for religious rituals and temples, acted as intermediaries between temple deities and devotees, performed rite of passage rituals such as solemnising a wedding with hymns and prayers, responsible for religious rituals.
