Public Administration in Ancient India c4.8
Public Administration in Ancient India c4.8
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Our sources of information regarding the systems of administration which prevailed in India in the ancient times and the political ideas and ideals which moulded and shaped those systems, are various. Briefly speaking, they are: the Vedas, the Hindu Epics, the Smritis, the Purānas, the religious books of the Buddhists and the Jainas, historical and dramatic literature, accounts of foreign travellers, epigraphic records, and lastly, a few treatises which deal specially with Politics.