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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806272903321

Autore

Chousalkar Ashok S. <1950->

Titolo

Revisiting the political thought of ancient India : pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra tradition / / Ashok S. Chousalkar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, CA : , : SAGE Publications, Inc., , 2018

ISBN

93-5328-776-6

93-5280-769-3

93-5280-770-7

Edizione

[1st edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

320.0934

Soggetti

Political science - India - History

Political science - Philosophy

India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The royal priests and the black magic of the Atharva Veda -- The origin of state and early political speculation in ancient India -- The origin of Arthashastra tradition -- The Lokayata philosophy and the early Arthashastra tradition -- The Arthashastra teachers -- Political thought of early Arthastastra thinkers -- Vijayan Bala and Apaddharma -- Ethics and politics in the Arthashastra tradition -- Supremacy of politics.

Sommario/riassunto

Revisiting the Political Thought of Ancient India: Pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra Tradition rediscovers the political ideas of the original and celebrated schools of thought in ancient India--early Arthashastra and Pre-Kautilyan traditions. This book throws light on hitherto not very well-known aspects of political ideas in ancient India, which flourished during the 5th and 4th centuries before Christ. Kautilya's Arthashastra is a major text on ancient Indian political thought, wherein he cited views of a number of Arthashastra teachers who had written on political science. Unfortunately, their writings are not available today; only their views are found scattered in different texts. This book brings together these views to prepare a coherent account of their political ideas and reconstructs the pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra tradition with the help of available sources.