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Comment: The main political ideas contained in the Manusmriti.

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  • Indian Political Thought

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The Manusmriti (Manava Dharmashastra), a versified smriti that its critical editor Patrick Olivelle places around the second century CE, is the most systematic Brahmanical statement on the state. Its politics sits mainly in Book 7 (the king's duty), Book 8 (courts and punishment) and Book 9 (the kingdom's seven limbs), always framed by dharma.

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  • Origin and Nature of Kingship
  • Danda: The Coercive Core
  • Rajadharma and Its Limits
  • Statecraft
  • Social Order as Political Order
  • Critique
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