State Formation, Agrarian Growth and Social Change in Feudal South India, C.AD 600-1200

This book underlines a preparatory phase (seventh-eighth centuries) marking the networking of fiefs and service tenements followed by an incubation time (ninth-tenth centuries) characterised by growing demands of surplus and the resulting extension of the arable, new drainage technique and increase in crop production. The final breakthrough stage (eleventh-twelfth centuries) was signalled by the reappearance of markets, minted money and urban centres.