Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c6.s1.24

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The most recent book which purports to describe the political ideas and institutions of both ancient India and Greece comes from the pen of Professor Krishna Prasanna Mukerji.¹ This work was written with the purpose of showing that the political institutions of the ancient Hindus, if not superior, were definitely as good as those of the Greeks.² Professor Mukerji also touches on the "democracies" and republican states but adds little new and mainly follows the earlier nationalist historians. Mukerji usually undervalues the importance of the Greek political philosophers and the Greek achievements in republican institutions.³