GOVERNANCE IN ANCIENT INDIA

Description

The present volume contains eighteen papers and an
appendix presented in the National Seminar on “Governance
in Ancient Indian’, organised jointly by the Sanskrit
Department of Mumbai University and Observer Research
Foundation, Mumbai. The seminar was organised in
December, 2010 to mark the centenary year of the discovery
of Kautilya’s Arthasastra, a systematic treatise on Polity.
Various sub topics like Education. Statecraft, Judiciary,
Legal Documents, Revenue. External Affairs, Internal
Security and the like are dealt with in this volume. Right
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from the Vedic literature to the classical Sanskrit literature,
references to good governance are scattered all over.
Governance firmly founded on moral order is prescribed as
the most ideal type by Ancient-Indian thinkers. Curious
readers would certainly benefit from this volume, if they
relate wisdom of the past to the contemporary issues