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{{Short description|Indian historian}}
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|field = Social history of ancient India
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|doctoral_advisor = [[Ram Sharan Sharma]]
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'''Suvira Jaiswal''' is an Indian historian. She is known for her research into the social history of ancient India, especially the evolution of the [[Caste system in India|caste system]] and the development and absorption of regional deities into the [[Hindu deities|Hindu pantheon]].

==Biography==
Suvira Jaiswal obtained a master's degree in history from [[Allahabad University]]. She received her doctorate under at the guidance of [[Ram Sharan Sharma]] at [[Patna University]].<ref name=swb>{{cite web|url=https://www.swb.co.in/author-info/6845|title=Suvira Jaiswal|publisher=Scholars without Borders|accessdate=28 August 2017}}</ref>

Jaiswal taught at Patna University from 1962. She was a professor at the Centre for Historical Studies at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] from 1971 until her retirement in 1999.<ref name=swb/>

In 2007, Jaiswal was the General President of the [[Indian History Congress]].<ref name="Darpan2007">{{cite journal|journal=Pratiyogita Darpan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ugDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT24|date=May 2007|title=Appointments (National)|publisher=Pratiyogita Darpan|volume=1|number=11|pages=24}}</ref>

==Research==
Jaiswal has researched the evolution of the [[caste system]] in India, its origins and functions. She showed that in the period of the [[Rig Veda]], the caste system 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 an extended kin-group, and that the transition from a pastoral to a sedentary mode of production led to increased social stratification with the grihapati becoming an archetype of the patriarchal principle.<ref name=front/> Jaiswal showed that neither skin colour and notions of race were the basis of caste (''varna'') differentiation. Rather, it was the unequal access to economic and political power that entrenched status distinctions and crystallised the hierarchy.<ref name=prashad>{{cite book|title=Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting|last=Prashad|first=Vijay|url=https://www.homeworkforyou.com/static/uploadedfiles/User_506913122015%5BVijay_Prashad%5D_Everybody_Was_Kung_Fu_Fighting._Af(BookZZ.org).pdf|accessdate=29 August 2017|isbn= 0-8070-5015-6|publisher=Beacon|year=2001|page=11}}</ref>

She also determined that there were consequences to specialist economic roles, endogamy and hierarchical society: the systematic suppression of women as a class.<ref name=front>{{cite journal|journal=Frontline|url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1520/15200780.htm|date=26 September 1998|accessdate=28 August 2017|title=New perspectives on caste|last=Shrimali|first=K.M.}}</ref> In particular, she pointed out that there was insufficient surplus production of goods in the Rig Vedic period to allow any section of society to withdraw from economic activity. This meant that women were more or less autonomous in their agency, having access to education and free movement.<ref name="Bhattacharya2004">{{cite book|last=Bhattacharya|first=Rinki |title=Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uI-HAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA32|date=9 June 2004|publisher=SAG|isbn=978-81-321-0327-1|page=32}}</ref>

==Selected works==
===Articles===
* {{cite encyclopedia|title=Studies in the Social Structure of the Early Tamils|encyclopedia=Indian Society: Historical Probings (In Memory of D.D. Kosambi)|location=New Delhi|publisher=ICHR|year=1974|last=Jaiswal|first=Suvira|editor1-first=R.S.|editor1-last=Sharma}}
* {{cite encyclopedia|title=Women in Early India: Problems and Perspectives|encyclopedia=Women under Primitive Buddhism|location=New Delhi|publisher=Motilal Banarsidas|year=1975|last=Jaiswal|first=Suvira|editor1-first=I.B.|editor1-last=Horner}}
* {{cite journal|last=Jaiswal|first=Suvira|title=Studies in Early Indian Social History: Trends and Possibilities|journal=The Indian Historical Review|volume=6|number=1-2|year=1979–80}}
* {{cite journal|journal=Social Scientist|year=1991|volume=19|number=3/3|title=Varna Ideology and Social Change|last=Jaiswal|first=Suvira}}
* {{cite journal|journal=Social Scientist|year=1993|volume=21|number=3/4|title=Historical Evolution of the Ram Legend|last=Jaiswal|first=Suvira}}
* {{cite journal|journal=Indian Historical Review|date=January 2000|doi=10.1177/037698360002700112|volume=27|issue=1|last=Jaiswal|first=Suvira|title=Sculpture at Vijayanagara: Iconography and Style}}
* 'Caste in the Socio-Economic Framework of Early India', Presidential Address, Section 1, in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 38th Session, Bhubaneswar, 1977, pp. 23–48.
* 'Semitising Hinduism: Changing Paradigms of Brahmanical Integration', Social Scientist, vol. 19, no. 12, 1991, pp. 20–32.
* 'The Changing Concept of Gahapati', in D. N. Jha, ed., Society and Ideology in India: Essays in Honour of Professor R. S. Sharma, Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1996: 29–37.
* 'Tribe-Caste interaction: A Re-examination of certain Issues', in Dev Nathan, ed., From Tribe to Caste, Shimla: IIAS, 1997: 167–75.

===Books===
* {{cite book|last=Jaiswal|first=Suvira|title=The Origin and Development of Vaisnavism from 200 BC to AD 500|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lP4iygAACAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal}}
* {{cite book|last=Jaiswal|first=Suvira|title=Caste: Origin, Function, and Dimensions of Change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixwtrpZK6XMC|year=2000|publisher=Manohar|isbn=978-81-7304-334-5}}
* {{cite book|last=Jaiswal|first=Suvira|title=The Making of Brahmanic Hegemony: Studies in Caste, Gender, and Vaiṣṇava Theology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=erDEDAEACAAJ|year=2016|publisher=[[Tulika Books]]|isbn=978-93-82381-83-9}}
* {{cite book|last=Jaiswal|first= Suvira|year=2019|title=Emergence of Castes and Outcastes: Historical Roots of the 'Dalit' Problem|publisher= The Asiatic Society|location= Kolkata|isbn=978-81-941437-5-8}}

== References ==

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