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# War in Ancient India

Theory and ethics of war, army divisions (elephants, chariots, cavalry, infantry), weapons, fortifications, battle arrays (vyūha), espionage, diplomacy; epic, Arthaśāstra, Tamil sources.

- **Language:** English
- **Author:** [V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar](https://indike.org/pramana/person/dikshitar-vrr)
- **Extent:** 1,856 passages, 108,655 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · 1st ed., Madras: Macmillan 1944; 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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c1) — 10 parts
- [c2 Foreword](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c2) — 13 parts
- [c3 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c3) — 14 parts
- [c4 Chapter I: The Psychological Background of War](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c4) — 6 parts
- [c5 Chapter II: The Laws of War](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c5) — 6 parts
- [c6 Chapter III: Weapons of War as Gathered from Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c6) — 52 parts
- [c7 Chapter IV: Army and Army Divisions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c7) — 8 parts
- [c8 Chapter V: Departments of the Army](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c8) — 84 parts
- [c9 Chapter VI: Strategy and Tactics in War](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c9) — 13 parts
- [c10 Chapter VII: Aerial and Naval Warfare](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c10) — 127 parts
- [c11 Chapter VIII: Diplomacy and War](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c11) — 71 parts
- [c12 Chapter IX: Diplomatic Agents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c12) — 119 parts
- [c13 Appendix I: Manuscripts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c13) — 8 parts
- [c14 Appendix II: Flags in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c14) — 49 parts
- [c15 Appendix III: War Music](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c15) — 59 parts
- [c16 Books Consulted: 1. Original Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c16) — 7 parts
- [c17 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c17) — 63 parts

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