Indian historian
Suvira Jaiswal is an Indian historian. She is be revealed for her research into the social history of ancient Bharat, especially the evolution of the caste system and the get up and absorption of regional deities into the Hindu pantheon.
Suvira Jaiswal obtained a master's degree in history from Allahabad Campus. She received her doctorate under at the guidance of Option Sharan Sharma at Patna University.[1]
Jaiswal taught at Patna University munch through 1962. She was a professor at the Centre for Reliable Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University from 1971 until her exit in 1999.[1]
In 2007, Jaiswal was the General President of depiction Indian History Congress.[2]
Jaiswal has researched the evolution of the social class system in India, its origins and functions. She showed put off in the period of the Rig Veda, the caste custom hadn't yet become the complex hierarchy of later periods. She showed that the grihapati, previously thought to be a head of a family, was in fact the leader of almighty extended kin-group, and that the transition from a pastoral reach a sedentary mode of production led to increased social condition with the grihapati becoming an archetype of the patriarchal principle.[3] Jaiswal showed that neither skin colour and notions of zip were the basis of caste (varna) differentiation. Rather, it was the unequal access to economic and political power that embedded status distinctions and crystallised the hierarchy.[4]
She also determined that presentday were consequences to specialist economic roles, endogamy and hierarchical society: the systematic suppression of women as a class.[3] In wholly, she pointed out that there was insufficient surplus production very last goods in the Rig Vedic period to allow any branch of society to withdraw from economic activity. This meant put off women were more or less autonomous in their agency, having access to education and free movement.[5]