Aspects of political ideas and institutions in ancient India / by Ram Sharan Sharma

Includes index and errata

Histography of Ancient Indian polity up to 1930, Sources and method: Vedic texts, Dharmasutras and Smritis, The Saptanga theory of state, Theories of property, family and Varnaregarding the origin of the state, The contract theory of the origin of the State: a historical survey, Theory of Öriental Despotism"'': a socio-economic critique, Vidatha: the earliest folk-assembly of the Indo Aryans, Sabha and Samiti, The Vedic gana and post vedic republic, Thye early Parisad, Tribal and primitive aspects of the later Vedic polity, From Gopati to Bhupati, Varna in relation to Law and politics, Religion and politics in Arthasashtrya of Kautilya, The Satavahana polity, The Kusana polity, Kusana elements in the Gupta polity, The Gupta polity, Stages in ancient India polity: Vedic and post vedic, Stages in ancient India polity: Maurya and later, Recapitulation