Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.s5.34

c6.s5.34

*Hindu Political Theories*, pp. 84-85. *Rājatvam* means simply sovereignty or governmental sovereignty. And sovereignty is the chief characteristic of statehood. It is not government. For, government is ‘the organization of the state, the machinery through which the state will is expressed.’ If the Hindu philosophers have only realized government and not state, it surpasses one’s comprehension how there could be any organized government without a state. There could be a government provided there was a properly organized state. Hence there is reason to believe that the political philosophers in Ancient India realized this fact and evolved the ideas of both state and government. As a matter of fact there are numerous examples of different forms of state such as monarchical, republican, etc. In the face of this to deny the existence of the state as separate from government is a mere allegation that has no evidence to support it.