History of the Arthasastra - Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India

Informationen zum Autor Mark McClish is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois. He has published a number of works on the Arthasastra and ancient Indian law, politics, and religion including the book The Arthasastra: Selections from the Classic Indian Work on Statecraft (with Patrick Olivelle, 2012) and numerous articles. He has received support from the Fulbright-Hays program and the Mellon Foundation. Klappentext By analyzing the Arthasastra's early history, Mark McClish overturns prevailing beliefs that ancient India was governed by religion, not politics. Zusammenfassung The Arthasastra is the foundational text of Indic political thought. By analyzing its early history, Mark McClish overturns prevailing beliefs that ancient India was governed by religion and shows that this text originally espoused a political philosophy characterized by empiricism and pragmatism, ignoring the sacred mandate of dharma altogether. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Arthä¿stra historiography; 3. The resegmentation of the Arthä¿stra; 4. Citation and attribution; 5. The deep structure of the text; 6. The history of the Arthä¿stra; 7. The politics of the Dä¿an¿ti; 8. Var¿adharma in the Arthä¿stra; 9. Statecraft, law, and religion in ancient India; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Mark McClish, Mark (Northwestern University Mcclish, McClish Mark
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108701747
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70174-7
• No. of pages: 307
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sanskrit, History of Ideas, English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, India, Hinduism, Ancient History, Asian History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient religions & mythologies, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient religions and Mythologies