TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chousalkar,Ashok S.
TI  - Revisiting the political thought of ancient India: pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra tradition 
SN  - 9789352807680
U1  - 320.0934 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New Delhi, 
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Political science
KW  - India
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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