Evolution of Indian Polity (Classic Reprint)

This book contains the series oton lectures delivered by me on theE volution of Indian Polity under the Presidency of the Hon. Dr. Sir A sutosh Mookerjee, President of the Council of the Post-G raduate Studies in Arts at the Calcutta University in the months of March and A pril 1919. The first stafe in the evolution as detailed in the first lecture, is found universal and as such it I equires no additional proof. The Institution of Elective Monarchy of Bachelor kings begotten by priests on a family of queens or cows as they are called, is peculiar to I ndia; and no other nation has as yet been found to have passed through the institution of bachelor kings to hereditary monarchy which forms the third stage in the evolution of Indian polity. lu all these stages, the monarchical element seems to have been under the powers of the Peoples Assembly composed of priests, nobles (R ajas), traders and Agriculturists (V is). As stated in theM imansa Sutras of Jaimini, the king had no power over laud, and was entitled only to Jrth of the produce. Banishment or degradation of kings was one of the constitutional checks frequently employed for the prevention of the kings extravagant proceedings and gambling and other vices. The same constitutional checli seems to have been employed even in the few Buddhist republics that prevailed side by side with monarchical institutions. What strikingly distinguishes India from the other contemporary nation-; in the application of sucii constitutional checks as banishment or degradation of tyrannical See Appendix C. (E tE Appendix
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