Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India

Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India is a book by eminent historian Ram Sharan Sharma which discusses different views on the origin and the nature of the state in Ancient India. It also deals with stages and processes of state formation and examines the relevance of caste and kin-based collectivities to the construction of polity. The Vedic assemblies are studied in some detail, and developments in political organization are presented in relation to their changing social and economic background. The book also shows how religion and rituals were brought in the service of the ruling class.

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Historian and Indologist A.K.Warder describes the work as :

Historian K.A.Nilakanta Sastri opines as follows:

Times Literary Supplement opined as follows:

J.W.Spellman of University of Windsor had to say of the work:

It has been published by Motilal Banarsidass.

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