The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c11.t16.5

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c11.t16.5

If it may be allowed to combine this plan of imperial constitution laid down in the *smriti-śâstras*, *nîti-śâstras*, and the epic with the few epigraphic facts, if not as supplement, at any rate, as an illustration of the channels along which Hindu administrative *śakti* (genius) worked, we have in Maurya India (B. C. 322—185 B. C.) a picture of France organized under the *Intendants* of Richelieu for an area seven times as large.³ How many such Maurya Empires can be credited to the political capabilities demonstrated in European history?

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