The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c23.84

c23.84

famine relief in, 264; guilds in, 266; interstatal diplomacy and relations in, 254-56; irrigation in, 264; judicial system in, 274-75; king, his timetable, harem, relations with princes, council, etc., in, 267-68; local government in, 271; ministers, etc., and their qualifications in, 268-70; persistence of his ideas in later Sanskrit literature, 280-81; political conditions in, 254 sqq.; projected social legislation in, 260; protectorates in, 256-57; provision against calamities, etc., in, 266-67; Purohita in, 26; regulation of economic life by the state, 263 sqq.; revenue in, 276-77; salaries, pensions, promotion, etc., of officers in, 272-74; scope of state activity in, 259 sqq.; spies in, 275-76; state as a business concern in, 262-63; variations of the names of, and identification of, 252 n, 253 n.