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Explain the sources of ancient Indian political thought.

  • UPSC 2020
  • 15 marks
  • Indian Political Thought

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Ancient India left no single treatise on politics. Its political ideas lie scattered across ritual, legal, epic, technical and Buddhist texts, and in inscriptions and foreign accounts, entangled with religion, society and economy. Bhikhu Parekh groups them into a Brahmanical stream built around dharma and danda, and a Buddhist stream whose politics must be drawn…

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  • Brahmanical Literature
  • Buddhist and Jain Literature
  • Non-literary Sources
  • Reading the Sources
  • Present Relevance
  • Conclusion
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