Course Details
Subject {L-T-P / C} : HS5131 : Application of Kautilya's Arthasastra in Modern India { 3-0-0 / 3}
Subject Nature : Theory
Coordinator : Prof. Surabhi Verma
Syllabus
Unit 1: Introduction to the Discipline- Introduction to the Arthashastra, various disciplines of Indian Education System, place of Kautilya Arthashastra among one of them, importance of science dealing with governance
Unit 2: Introduction to Tantrayuktis – The methods of preparing a compendium, tools and techniques of writing a compendium.
Unit 3: Governance Procedure- Appointment of the ministers, duties of Government superintendents, treasury, spies, royal writ, punishment- Vakparushya and Dandaparushya.
Unit 4: Laws of Inheritance – Determination of forms of Agreements, determination of legal disputes, Division of inheritance, Special shares in inheritance, Distinction between sons.
Unit 5: Economic Dimension- Body of income of the state, collection of revenue, duties of a Chamberlin (koshadhyksha), forty ways of embezzlement of the revenue, punishment for the embezzlement of revenue, expenditure, Loss and Profit, Keeping up the Accounts, Recovery of Debts, Deposits of the state, Resumption of the gifts, Remission of Taxes.
Unit 6: Political Dimension- Six fold Policy- War, Combination of Powers, Agreement of Peace with or without definite terms, Double Policy, Circle of States, Conduct of Corporations, Secret means, Plan of treatise, planning of different Vyuhas in War.
Course Objectives
- To train the students for upcoming needs in the area of policy making for states at national and international level on the basis of ancient fundamentals.
Course Outcomes
1. This course will enlighten the students about the ancient fundamentals about political and economic constituents, which will frame out a basic land of understanding the modern trends. This will help them to understand the upcoming needs in the area of policy making for states at national and international level. <br />2. This treatise deals with the science of Governance, so it projects out all the dimensions needed to be understood by students about the present socio-economic and political rules and regulations of the state.
Essential Reading
- T. Ganapati Shastri, Arthashastra of Kautilya, Chaukhambha Surbharti Prakashana , Varanasi, India 2005.
- Sri. Vacaspati Gairola, Arthashastra of Kautilya, Chaukhambha Vidyabahavan , Varanasi, India, 2013.
Supplementary Reading
- L.N. Rangarajan, The Arthashastra, Penguin Books Ltd. , London.
- none, Kautilya’s Arthashastra: The Way of Financial Management and Economic Governance, Jaico Publishing House , Mumbai, India.