[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968) › c7.20 # Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c7.20 Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c7.20 - **Language:** English ### [c7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.20) The Vedic literature does not provide any specific evidence to suggest the evolution of political institutions or the development of different forms of constitution, but this does not disprove such a development. Greek and Latin literature contains considerable data which has helped classical historians of political institutions to establish more or less accurately the origin and development of monarchy and its relation with aristocracy and democracy in Greece and Rome.² "Sparta was the one state of the Greek world which had maintained a steady tradition of unbroken continuity in its government: in other cities there had been a development which had almost everywhere followed the same order, from monarchy to aristocracy, from aristocracy to tyranny, from tyranny to democracy."³ - [Previous: c7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.19) - [Next: c7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.21) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.20) · Pramāṇa