Revisiting the Political Thought of Ancient India : Pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra Tradition /

Chousalkar, Ashok S.

Revisiting the Political Thought of Ancient India : Pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra Tradition / Ashok S. Chousalkar. - 1st - New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2018. - x, 200p.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Royal Priests and the Black Magic of the Atharva Veda
3. The Origin of State and Early Political Speculation in Ancient India
4. The Origin of Arthashastra Tradition
5. The Lokayata Philosophy and the Early Arthashastra Tradition
6. The Arthashastra Teachers
7. Political Thought of Early Arthastastra Thinkers
8. Vijayan Bala and Apaddharma
9. Ethics and Politics in the Arthashastra Tradition
10. Supremacy of Politics
Annexure: Methodology of Kautilya’s Arthashatra
Bibliography
Index


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