Hindu Administrative Institutions c5.10

c5.10

An account of the administrative machinery employed for carrying on the administration ought necessarily to consider first what exactly the ideas were that underlay this administrative machinery. It is obvious that a society must exist before it feels the necessity for an organization such as a state or government is. It is generally taken for granted that when society emerges from out of the stage of the mere group organizations of a primitive character and provides itself with a more general organization for carrying on the functions usually regarded as political or governmental, the idea of the state emerges.