The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c21.61

c21.61

The seventeenth century works like Mitra Miśra’s Vīramitrodaya and Nīlakaṇṭha’s Nītimayūkha discuss politics on old lines and here and there give a new turn to political ideas. But they throw no fresh light on institutions. The same remark applies to the bulky legal work, the Nṛsiṃhaprasāda of Dalapati, minister of In one essential matter, the Indo-Muslim state of the Middle Ages marks a great departure from ancient practice.