The Training, Qualifications, Character and Powers of Ministers in Ancient India
An essay providing a glimpse of the harmonious relationship that existed between the ruler and the council of ministers in ancient India all the way up to the end of the Classical Era.
A KEY LINK TO UNDERSTAND both the theoretical and practical functioning of politics and statecraft in ancient India up to the destruction of the Classical Era is not to view it from the prism of what is known as democracy. While we can find contemporary terminological equivalents to adequately describe and analyze various aspects of Hindu polity, we mus…