[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Administrative Institutions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929) › c5.2 # Hindu Administrative Institutions c5.2 Hindu Administrative Institutions c5.2 - **Language:** English ### [c5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c5.2) How far these ideas of literary men actually found vogue has next to be examined, and it can be done only by a study of the inscriptions ranging from the time of Asoka to quite modern times. The details that can be got in this body of records may not give us a general conspectus of Hindu political institutions as a whole. But such hints as we get may enable us, with the aid of the literary sources, to reconstruct to a great extent the institutions as they existed. This would prove a valuable source of confirmation of what we may be really able to reconstruct from the literary sources alone. This can again be checked and verified wherever possible, from accounts that we get of the institutions that prevailed at any particular time from foreigners that left accounts of them either by design, or when they made casual remarks regarding them, in the course of their writing on other themes. It is when all this work is done exhaustively that we can at all hope to obtain a picture, complete in all its details, of the administrative institutions of India under the Hindus. - [Previous: c5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c5.1) - [Next: c5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c5.3) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c5.2) · Pramāṇa