Political, Legal And War Philosophy In Ancient India
Author : H.S. Bhatia
Publisher : Deep and Deep Publications
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2001
Category : India
ISBN : 9788171003655
Author : H.S. Bhatia
Publisher : Deep and Deep Publications
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2001
Category : India
ISBN : 9788171003655
Author : Harbans Singh Bhatia
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 1984
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : S. K. Purohit
Publisher : Deep and Deep Publications
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Law
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Author : Upinder Singh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0674981286
Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa). But this myth obscures a troubled and complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the dynamic tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian political thought and practice over twelve hundred years. Political Violence in Ancient India looks at representations of kingship and political violence in epics, religious texts, political treatises, plays, poems, inscriptions, and art from 600 BCE to 600 CE. As kings controlled their realms, fought battles, and meted out justice, intellectuals debated the boundary between the force required to sustain power and the excess that led to tyranny and oppression. Duty (dharma) and renunciation were important in this discussion, as were punishment, war, forest tribes, and the royal hunt. Singh reveals a range of perspectives that defy rigid religious categorization. Buddhists, Jainas, and even the pacifist Maurya emperor Ashoka recognized that absolute nonviolence was impossible for kings. By 600 CE religious thinkers, political theorists, and poets had justified and aestheticized political violence to a great extent. Nevertheless, questions, doubt, and dissent remained. These debates are as important for understanding political ideas in the ancient world as for thinking about the problem of political violence in our own time.
Author : Sekharipuram Vaidyanatha Viswanatha
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 1925
Category : India
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Author : Adam Bowles
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9047422600
The Āpaddharmaparvan, 'the book on conduct in times of distress', is an important section of the great Sanskrit epic the Mahābhārata which, despite its significance for Mahābhārata studies and for the history of Indian social and political thought, has received little attention in scholarly literature. This book places the Āpaddharmaparvan within its literary and ideological contexts. In so doing it explores the development of a conception of brahmanic kingship morally justifiable within the terms of a debate largely set by various alternative social movements of the period. This book further explores the implications for our understanding of the Mahābhārata that follow from the Āpaddharmaparvan's presentation as a poetically cohesive unit within itself and within the wider parameters of the Mahābhārata.
Author : Ashok S. Chousalkar
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789352807680
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.
Author : Chakradhar Jha
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Law
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Author : Pramathanath Bandyopadhyay
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Customary law
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Author : Sarva Daman Singh
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :