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Evaluate the contributions of Buddhist tradition to Indian political thought.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 15 marks
  • Indian Political Thought

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Buddhism arose as a protest against Vedic sacrifice and the varna order, and its politics carries that oppositional stamp. Where Brahmanical texts rested rule on sacred duty and danda, the Buddhist canon rested it on ethics. Its contributions are real but uneven, and they need to be weighed against what the tradition never supplied.

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  • A Human Origin of the State
  • Righteousness as the Test of Rule
  • Evaluation: The Limits
  • Continuing Influence
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