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The History of the Arthaśāstra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India |
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McClish, Mark (著)
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| Date | 2019.07 |
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| Pages | 306 |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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https://www.cambridge.org/
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| Location | Cambridge, UK [劍橋, 英國] |
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| Series | Ideas in Context |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Mark McClish, Northwestern University, Illinois. |
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| Abstract | The Arthaśāstra is the foundational text of Indic political thought and ancient India's most important treatise on statecraft and governance. It is traditionally believed that politics in ancient India was ruled by religion; that kings strove to fulfil their sacred duty; and that sovereignty was circumscribed by the sacred law of dharma. Mark McClish's systematic and thorough evaluation of the Arthaśāstra's early history shows that these ideas only came to prominence in the statecraft tradition late in the classical period. With a thorough chronological exploration, he demonstrates that the text originally espoused a political philosophy characterized by empiricism and pragmatism, ignoring the mandate of dharma altogether. The political theology of dharma was incorporated when the text was redacted in the late classical period, which obscured the existence of an independent political tradition in ancient India altogether and reinforced the erroneous notion that ancient India was ruled by religion, not politics. |
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| Table of contents | The History of the Arthaśāstra i - i
Ideas in Context - Series ii - ii
The History of the Arthaśāstra - Title iii - iii
Copyright iv - iv
Dedication v - vi
Contents vii - ix
Figures and Tables x - x
Preface and Acknowledgments xi - xv
Note on the Text xvi - xvii
Abbreviations xviii - xix
Chapter 1 - Introduction 1 - 27
Chapter 2 - Arthaśāstra Historiography 28 - 51
Chapter 3 - The Resegmentation of the Arthaśāstra 52 - 82
Chapter 4 - Citation and Attribution 83 - 110
Chapter 5 - The Deep Structure of the Text 111 - 139
Chapter 6 - The History of the Arthaśāstra 140 - 154
Chapter 7 - The Politics of the Daṇḍanīti 155 - 173
Chapter 8 - Varṇadharma in the Arthaśāstra 174 - 207
Chapter 9 - Statecraft, Law, and Religion in Ancient India 208 - 223
Aendix I - Other Theories of Composition 224 - 225
Aendix II - Chapter Colophons 226 - 227
Aendix III - End Verses at Variance with Preceding Prose 228 - 230
Aendix IV - Possible Integration between Prose and End Verses 231 - 232
Aendix V - Proposed Interpolations at the End of Chapters 233 - 234
Aendix VI - Possible Instances of Unattributed Citation 235 - 237
Aendix VII - Proposed Interpolations Depending on Citations 238 - 238
Aendix VIII - Other Proposed Interpolations 239 - 239
Aendix IX - Manu’s Seventh Chapter and the Daṇḍanīti 240 - 242
Aendix X - Brāhmaṇical Privileges 243 - 244
Bibliography 245 - 255
Index Locorum 256 - 266
Index 267 - 274
Ideas in Context - Series 275 - 288 |
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| ISBN | 9781108641586 (eb); 9781108701747 (pbk); 9781108476904 (hc) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108641586 |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: The History of the Arthaśāstra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India by Mark McClish / Davis, Donald R., Jr. (評論)
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| Created date | 2023.06.17 |
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| Modified date | 2023.06.17 |
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