Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India
- Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publisher, 1959.
- 457p.
Historiography of ancient Indian polity up to 1930 -- Sources and method -- The Saptanga theory of the state -- Theories of property, family and varna regarding the origin of the state -- The contract theory of the origin of the state: an historical survey -- Theory of "oriental despotism": a socio-economic critique -- Vidatha Fhe Earliest Folk-Assembly of" the Indo- Aryans -- Sabha and Samiti -- The Vedic Garia and the Origin of the Post-Vedic Republics -- The Early Parisad -- Ratnahavimsi Ceremony -- Tribal and Primitive Aspects of the Later Vedic Polity -- Kin-conflicts and Rise of Hierarchy in Later Vedic Times -- 'From Gopati to Bhupati: Changing Position of the King -- Taxation and State Formation in Northern India in Pre-Maurya Times -- Varna in Relation to Law and Politics (C.B.C.600-A.D.500) -- Religion and Politics in the Artha§astra of Kautilya -- The Satavahana Polity -- The Kusatia Polity -- Kusapa Elements in the Gupta Polity -- The Gupta Polity -- Stages in Ancient Indian Polity: Vedic and Post-Vedic -- Stages in Ancient Indian Polity: Maurya and Later -- Recapitulation
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International & World Politics Ancient India Politics and Government- India Political science