The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c6.s2.18

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On the other hand there is a class of Oriental scholars, among both Indian nationalists and leaders of the Chinese revolution, who try to demonstrate the existence of every modern democratic theory and republican institution and perhaps also of sovietic communism in the experience of ancient and mediaeval Asia. There is an attempt on their part to trace the latest Eur-American phase of the art and science of government in the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, Śukra and Manu, and in the clan-republics and village-commonwealths of the Orient.