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Taxation and revenue collection in ancient India

reflections on Mahabharata, Manusmriti, Arthasastra and Shukranitisar / S. K. Sharma

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Taxation and revenue collection in ancient India

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Newcastle upon Tyne

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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xiv, 128 p.

ISBN:

9781443889131

Аннотация:

This is the first book to study taxation and revenue collection through a detailed analysis of public finance and financial administration in four major Indian texts, namely Mahabharata, Manusmriti, Shukranitisar and Arthashastra, as philosophers trained in the Indian classic tradition and scholars working on ancient Indian wisdom mostly prefer a more abstract approach. India has a long tradition of at least two millennia of active philosophizing in the fields of logic, ethics, epistemology and metaphysics, though many in the West feel hesitant in according it the title philosophy in their sense of the word. Furthermore, few in India have taken it beyond philosophy towards active knowledge. This book re-visits and re-interprets the contexts of these texts with logic and objectivity to bring the pearls of knowledge found within into the present day, showing that Sanskrit is still the lingua franca of intellectual dialogue in India.

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Английский

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