The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c10.s2.t1.5

c10.s2.t1.5

For the present, however, the Tamil “great assemblies” should appear to be the only specimens of “indirect” or representative polity on a national scale. In reality, details about supreme councils in other periods of Hindu politics are almost nil. But in Maurya India, as we can glean from Kautilya’s *Artha-śâstra*, there were two Imperial Councils.²