State and Government in Ancient India c8.s2.2

c8.s2.2

Systematic literature on what we may call the Science of Polity does not go back to a time earlier than *c.* 500 B. C. This is but natural. Even semi-secular and semi-religious subjects like grammar, etymology and astronomy began to develop as independent treatises only from about the 8th century B. C. The science of polity, therefore, cannot be expected to have acquired an independent existence much before the sixth century B C.