A History of Hindu Political Theories (Classic Reprint): From the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A. D

The present work is an attempt to trace the political thought of the Hindu people through the long and varied history of its origin, development, and decline. The historical presentation of the Hindu theories of theS tate and Government is at this moment one of the great desiderata in the field of I ndology. It is a welcome sign of the times that since the preparation of this volume was first undertaken, there has been a plentiful crop of books and papers bearing more or less directly upon selected areas of its subjectmatter. So long however as there is a tendency, as at present, to depend mainly, if not exclusively, upon the analytical method, there is the risk of interpreting the concepts and categories of the Hindu thinkers in disregard of the limiting conditions of time and place. In the present work while analysis and comparison have, it is believed, received their due measure of attention, the object has been principally to unfold the record of the Hindu political mind in the order of its historical evolution as far as practicable. It has thus been possible to present the ideas concerned in their true historical perspective, and further and above all, to explain the process of their growth and development.
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