88 SOCIAL SCIENTIST 14. "The Place of Ur in the Economic and Social History of Early Tamilnadu 750-1250', a paper presented at the ICHR seminar on 'Problems of Economic and Social History of India', Madras University, 1-3 Feb. 1977. 15. Indian Historical Review, Vol. 8, Nos. 1-2, 1981-82, pp. 74-94. Jha also draws our attention to the growing stratification within the peasantry itself but he does not empirically substantiate the 'social cleavage' that he talks about between brahmanas and the peasantry. 16. For evidence of conflict arising out of conversion of peasant settlements into agraharas see N. Vanamalai, 'Consolidation of Feudalism and Antifeudal Struggles during Chola Imperialist Rule', Proceedings of the second International Conference Seminar of Tamil Studies, Madras, 1968, Vol. 2, Madras, 1970, pp. 239-43. D.N. ]ha, 'Early Indian Feudalism: A Historiographical Critique', Presidential Address, Ancient India Section, Indian History Congress, 45th session, Annamalai, 1984. 17. Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India, p. 234. 18. The administrative autonomy of brahmadeya and devadana settlements has also been discussed by N.K. Shastri, Appadorai and T.V. Mahalingam. 19. K. Hall, Trade and State Craft in the Age of Cholas, Delhi, 1980, Chapter 2. 20. B.D. Chattopadhyaya, 'Trade and Urban Centres in Early Medieval North India', Indian Historical Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1974, pp. 203-19; 'Origin of the Rajputs: Political, economic and social processes in early medieval Rajasthan', Indian Historical Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1976, pp. 59-82; 'Political Processes and Structure of Polity in Early Medieval India: Problems of Perspective', Presidential Address, 44th Session of the Indian History Congress; and The Making of Early Medieval India, Introduction (manuscript). 21. B.D. Chattopadhyaya, 'Political Processes and Structure of Polity in Early Medieval India: Problems of Perspective', p. 10.