The Mauryan Polity
Mauryan state from Arthaśāstra, Aśokan edicts and Megasthenes: king, ministers, departments, municipal government, law, revenue, army, foreign policy.
- Language
- English
- Author
- V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar
- Extent
- 2,034 passages, 99,897 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · 1st ed., University of Madras 1932; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar †1953)
Contents
- c1 Front matter
- c2 The Mauryan Polity — 3 parts
- c3 Contents — 26 parts
- c4 Prefatory Note — 6 parts
- c5 Chapter I. Sources of Information — 4 parts
- c6 Chapter II. The Extent and Character of the Empire — 4 parts
- c7 Chapter III. The Central Administration — 6 parts
- c8 Chapter IV. The Central Administration—(Contd.) — 4 parts
- c9 Chapter V. The Military System — 6 parts
- c10 Chapter VI. Provincial and Local Governments — 3 parts
- c11 Chapter VII. Sec. i. The Concept of Dharma — 10 parts
- c12 Appendix I. The Authenticity of the Kauṭalīya — 152 parts
- c13 Appendix II. Megasthenes and Kauṭalya — 17 parts
- c14 Books Consulted — 1 part
- c15 Index — 57 parts