TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharma, Ram Sharan
TI  - Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India
SN  - 8120808274
U1  - 934 
PY  - 1959///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Motilal Banarsidass Publisher
KW  - International & World Politics
KW  - Ancient India
KW  - Politics and Government- India
KW  - Political science
N1  - 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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