Public Administration in Ancient India c7.1

c7.1

PHILOSOPHERS in all ages and of all countries have loved to speculate on the origin of the State, and it would be a matter for surprise if we were told that the Āryan sages of India did not exercise their imagination on so inviting a subject. As a matter of fact, however, we know that Indian philosophers did devote some attention to this matter, and that although their speculations were not elaborated with the same minuteness of detail as those of some of the European theorists, they would not perhaps be entirely devoid of interest to the student of political philosophy.