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Compare and contrast Dharmasastra and Arthasastra with reference to State power.

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  • Indian Political Thought

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Ancient India produced two literatures on the state. Dharmashastra, led by the Manusmriti, asks what royal power is for and under which norm it stands. Arthashastra, whose surviving classic is the treatise of Kautilya (Chanakya/Vishnugupta), asks how power is secured, used and enlarged. Both turn on dharma and danda and differ in which of the…

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