The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c3.4

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c3.4

The study of institutions is based chiefly, or rather exclusively, on inscriptions, coins and contemporary reports (Authorities A). The Sanskrit and Prâkrit treatises on politics and law as well as the semi-historical epics and birth stories (Authorities B and C) have sedulously been eschewed. This “literary” material has, if at all, been used by way of illustration, especially where strictly historical evidence was not forthcoming.

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