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100			_aSharma, Ram Sharan
245			_aAspects of political ideas and institutions in ancient India / _cRam Sharan Sharma
250			_a5th rev. ed.
260			_aDelhi : _bMotilal Banarsidass, _c2005, 2009(rpnt).
300			_axxxi, 462 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aHistoriography 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: The Earliest Folk-Assembly of the Indo- Aryans -- Sabha and Samiti -- The Vedic Gana and the Origin of the Post-Vedic Republics -- The Early Parisad -- Ratnahamisi 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 Arthasastra of Kautilya -- The Satavahana Polity -- The Kusana Polity -- Kusana 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 --
650			_aPolitical Science _xHistory _97932
650			_aPolitical History _zAncient India _97933
651			_aIndia _xPolitics and Government _xHistory _97934
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