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Write a note on the Buddhist tradition in Indian political thought.

  • UPSC 2012
  • 20 marks
  • Indian Political Thought

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Buddhism sought release from the world and left no treatise of statecraft. Yet the Pali suttas, the Jatakas, the monastic code (Vinaya), Ashvaghosha's Buddhacharita and Ashoka's edicts yield a distinct political ethic. Its hallmark is authority grounded in agreement and function rather than birth or divine appointment. Uma Chakravarti reads it against the rise of…

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  • Philosophical Foundations
  • The Origin of the State
  • Kingship, Welfare and War
  • The Sangha as a Political Model
  • Limits
  • Modern Afterlife
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