Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient IndiaThe 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. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Sources and Method | 15 |
The Saptånga Theory of the State | 31 |
A SocioEcono | 77 |
The Earliest FolkAssembly of the Indo | 87 |
Sabha and Samiti | 105 |
The Early Parisad | 133 |
Ratnahavimși Ceremony | 143 |
Religion and Politics in the Arthaśästra of Kautilya | 253 |
The Satavahana Polity | 275 |
The Kuṣāņa Polity | 291 |
Kuṣāņa Elements in the Gupta Polity | 311 |
The Gupta Polity | 321 |
Vedic and Post | 349 |
Maurya and Later | 371 |
Recapitulation | 403 |
Tribal and Primitive Aspects of the Later | 159 |
Kinconflicts and Rise of Hierarchy in Later | 171 |
Changing Position of | 185 |
Taxation and State Formation in Northern India | 197 |
Varṇa in Relation to Law and Politics c B C | 233 |
and polity 404 Main phases in ancient Indian | 405 |
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