Kautliya

BOOK I: Introductory. 1. Kautilya or Canakya. 2. The Arthasastra and its discovery. 3. The Arthasastras and the circumstances of their growth. 4. On the aims of life. BOOK II: Ideas about Society, State and Kingship. 1. Ethical Concepts. 2. Social Concept. 3. Political considerations. 4. Constituent elements of a State. 5. Importance of regal authority. BOOK III: The King, his duties and relation to the State. 1. Kingly ideal in the Arthasastra. 2. Royal authority; Law and the administrative machinery. 3. Legal theory of the Royal Person. 4. Circumstances and causes contributing to the development of royal power. 5. The king’s daily life. 6. Concept of regal duties and government functions. BOOK IV: The Administration. 1. The Administrative Machinery. 2. The Central Executive. 3. The Mantri-Parisat. 4. The Bureaucracy and the Departments. 5. Revenue-Collection. 6. Land-Policy and land-revenue. 7. taxes and tolls, Royal properties, Mines, Additional incomes. 8. Receipt and audit. 9. Public Expenditure, Royal household, Religious Establishment, Payment of officials, Army & Navy, Factories, mines, agriculture and arts, Educational pensions and pensions to officials, Poor relief, Relief of distress and public works. 10. Police Administration. 11. Army and Navy, Infantry, Cavalry and Chariots, The Naval force, Maritime taxes, Elephants, Medical department and constitution of the army. 12. Regulation of commerce and Industry, Restrictions on Commerce, Regulation of profits, Cornering and adulteration, encouragement to foreign trade. 13. Regulation of Guilds and wages. 14. Regulation of labour, servile labour, Rights of salves. 15. Justice and judiciary. 16. The New Tribunals, Constitution of the courts & Jurisdictions punishments. 17. Eradication of social evils. 18. Emergency measures. 19. Provincial and local government. 20. Rural Autonomy. 21. Sanitation and public works. 22. Social service and poor relief. 23. Preservation of social order: religion. 24. Kautilyan Civil Law. BOOK V: Retrospect and Criticism. I. Character of the administration. II. Gradual Evolution of the System. III. Kautiliyan Ideal. IV. Consolidation of regal power. Appendix-A, Appendix-B, Appendix-C. Bibliography: The Yajurveda.. Bombay N.S. text, S’atapatha Brahmana.. Trans by Eggeling, Aitereya Brahmana .. Haug’s edition & Translation, The Dharma-sutra of Apastamba (B.S, S. Edition), The Dharma-Sutra of Vasistha (B.S.S.Edition), The Dharma-Sutra of Gautama (Mysore edition) Jataka-Fausboll, Eng, Trans, by Cowell, Beng, Trnas. By I.C. Ghose, (Vols I, II, III). The Inscriptions of Asoka, Gupta Inscriptions by Fleets, The Canakya-Katha, C.O. S. Edited by Dr. N. Law, The Mudra-raksasa-B.S.S. Edition by telang, The Kautilya Arthasastra-Editio Princeps and eng, Trans. By Dr. Shamasastry. The Vatsyayana Kama-sutra, The Sarva siddhanta-Sangraha, Edited by Kuppusvamy, The Sarva-Darsana-Sangraha, Edited by Jivananda Vidyasagara, The Saddarsana-Samuccaya, Benares Sanskrit, Series, English Constitutional History-By Medlay, Tasswall, Lanmead and Feilen, Decline and Fall of Roman Empire-by Gibbon, Maspero, Struggle of nations, Maclaren, History of Japan, During the Meiji Era, Jastrow.. Civilization of Babylonia, Seth .. Ethical Principals, Haney.. History of Economic Thought.

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