Author: Kumbakonam Viraraghava Rangaswami AiyangarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Considerations on Some Aspects of Ancient Indian Polity
Author: Kumbakonam Viraraghava Rangaswami AiyangarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Political Violence in Ancient India
Author: Upinder SinghPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674981286
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa). But this myth obscures a troubled and complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the dynamic tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian political thought and practice over twelve hundred years. Political Violence in Ancient India looks at representations of kingship and political violence in epics, religious texts, political treatises, plays, poems, inscriptions, and art from 600 BCE to 600 CE. As kings controlled their realms, fought battles, and meted out justice, intellectuals debated the boundary between the force required to sustain power and the excess that led to tyranny and oppression. Duty (dharma) and renunciation were important in this discussion, as were punishment, war, forest tribes, and the royal hunt. Singh reveals a range of perspectives that defy rigid religious categorization. Buddhists, Jainas, and even the pacifist Maurya emperor Ashoka recognized that absolute nonviolence was impossible for kings. By 600 CE religious thinkers, political theorists, and poets had justified and aestheticized political violence to a great extent. Nevertheless, questions, doubt, and dissent remained. These debates are as important for understanding political ideas in the ancient world as for thinking about the problem of political violence in our own time.
Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India
Author: Ram Sharan SharmaPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120808270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The present work Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient Indian discusses different views on the origin and nature of the state in ancient India. It also deals with stages and processes of state formation and examines the relevance of caste and kin-based collectivities to the construction of polity. The Vedic assemblies are studied in some detail, and developments in political organisation are presented in relation to their changing social and economic background. The book also shows how religion and rituals were brought in the service of the ruling class.
Revisiting the Political Thought of Ancient India
Author: Ashok S. ChousalkarPublisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN: 9789352807680
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Revisiting the Political Thought of Ancient India: Pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra Tradition rediscovers the political ideas of the original and celebrated schools of thought in ancient India—early Arthashastra and Pre-Kautilyan traditions. This book throws light on hitherto not very well-known aspects of political ideas in ancient India, which flourished during the 5th and 4th centuries before Christ. Kautilya’s Arthashastra is a major text on ancient Indian political thought, wherein he cited views of a number of Arthashastra teachers who had written on political science. Unfortunately, their writings are not available today; only their views are found scattered in different texts. This book brings together these views to prepare a coherent account of their political ideas and reconstructs the pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra tradition with the help of available sources.
Some Aspects Of Ancient Indian Polity
Author: Kumbakonam Viraraghava Rangaswami AiyangarPublisher:
ISBN: 9788185204222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Puts Together The Authors Lectures On Aspects Of Ancient Indian Polity - Lectures - Appendices - Bibliography - Index - Covers Concepts Of Oriental Despotism, Elements Of The State Of Saptanga, Theory Of The Social Contract, Kingship, Aims Of The State, Local And Tribal Customs And Usage, Administration Of Justice, Public Finance Etc. Condition Good.
Considerations on some aspects of ancient Indian polity
Author: Kumbakonam Viraraghava Rangaswami AiyangarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
State and Government in Ancient India
Author: Anant Sadashiv AltekarPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120810099
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Problem of the Indian Polity
Author: Pratapagiri RamamurtiPublisher: Gyan Publishing House
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
A Study
Author: R. P. KanglePublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120800410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Idea of Ancient India
Author: Upinder SinghPublisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9357082425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
How can the complexities of ancient India be comprehended? This book draws on a vast array of texts, inscriptions, archaeology, archival sources and art to delve into themes such as the history of regions and religions, archaeologists and the modern histories of ancient sites, the interface between political ideas and practice, violence and resistance, and the interactions between the Indian subcontinent and the wider world. It highlights recent approaches and challenges in reconstructing South Asia's early history, and in doing so, brings out the exciting complexities of ancient India. Authoritative and incisive, this revised Penguin edition-with two new chapters-is essential reading for students and scholars of ancient Indian history and for all those interested in India's past.