State and Government in Ancient India
Origin and types of the state, kingship, council of ministers, republics, central and provincial administration, village government, revenue, law, army, interstate relations.
- Language
- English
- Author
- A. S. Altekar
- Extent
- 2,152 passages, 138,738 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · 1st ed., Banaras: Motilal Banarsidass 1949; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (A. S. Altekar †1960)
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 10 parts
- c2 Contents — 1 part
- c3 Preface to the Third Edition — 3 parts
- c4 Preface to the First Edition — 14 parts
- c5 Preface to the Second Edition — 12 parts
- c6 Abbreviations — 1 part
- c7 Transliteration — 2 parts
- c8 Chapter I. Name, History and Sources of the Science of Polity — 3 parts
- c9 Chapter II: Origin and Types of the State — 38 parts
- c10 Chapter III: Nature, Aims and Functions of the State — 33 parts
- c11 Chapter IV: The State and the Citizen — 28 parts
- c12 Chapter V: The Kingship — 25 parts
- c13 Chapter VI: Republics — 139 parts
- c14 Chapter VII: Central Assembly — 40 parts
- c15 Chapter VIII: Ministry — 194 parts
- c16 Chapter IX: Secretariat and Departments — 146 parts
- c17 Chapter X: Provincial, Divisional, District and Town Administration — 14 parts
- c18 Chapter XI: Village Administration — 4 parts
- c19 Chapter XII: Judicial Administration — 38 parts
- c20 Chapter XIII: Income and Expenditure — 233 parts
- c21 Chapter XIV: Interstate Relations — 56 parts
- c22 Chapter XV: Historical Survey of Administrations, Part I: From the Vedic to the Mauryan Age — 8 parts
- c23 Chapter XVI: Historical Survey of Administrations: Part II: Post-Mauryan Period — 7 parts
- c24 Chapter XVII: A General Estimate — 30 parts
- c25 Appendix I: Bibliography — 4 parts
- c26 Appendix II — 5 parts
- c27 Subject-Index — 60 parts