Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c3.2

c3.2

A dispassionate survey of the all too scanty sources still leaves much for India to be proud of, and the days are past when Indian scholars needed to impress the world with the fact that their country is capable of governing itself democratically, a fact which has been proved more than adequately by the events of the last twenty years. Therefore there has been a real need for a reassessment of the evidence on India’s ancient republics as objectively as possible.