Leisure in India in the Ancient Times

Euro-American-centric perspectives or Western perspectives have dominated leisure studies. It implied that non-Western societies didn't have any concept of Leisure. Some experts have even said that leisure has not been found in agrarian societies and also cannot be applied to archiac period and that Leisure was born in the civilization out of industrial revolution. However, some leisure scholars traced its origin to the writings of Aristotle in the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece. But these theories are not well founded in the sense like non- country like India, also had a rich tradition of Leisure through the ages i.e., Ancient, Medieval and Modern. This paper has two objectives: (a) to find leisure in the ancient age i.e., 3000 BC to 10th century AD; (b) to analyse leisure patterns among the different classes in the ancient times.