Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India

Sharma, Ram Sharan

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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