Analysis of Power-Structure Fluctuations in the 'Longue Duree' of the South Asian World System.

A time series of political power configurations of the Indic world system 500 BC--AD 1800 is examined via Poisson process, Markov process, autocorrelation, periodogrammetry, and time-spectral analysis (including epoch superposition). Several periodicities, both long (300-1000 years) and short (1, 2 and 3 generations) are suggested for historical re-examination. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]