The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c16.s1.t1.2

c16.s1.t1.2

At the back of all thinking in India there was the process of dichotomy between the *a-râjaka* (non-state) and the state by .erentiating it from the non-state. Their method was logical as well as historical. That is, in the first place, they tried to investigate in what particulars the state analytically differs from the non-state; and in the second place, they tried to picture to themselves as to how the pre-statal condition developed into the statal, i. e. how the state grew out of the non-state. The chief solution of both these problems they found in the doctrine of *mâtsya-nyâya* or the logic of the fish.