Learning outcomes After reading the course the students would be able to answer © fihat were the major insitutions of government in ancient India and how did they function? * How thinkers ike Manu, Shukra, Brihaspati and Kautilya perceived the role of statecraft in society? * Piha was the Nitsar tradition? How ald it mark a difference ftom the Arhashastra tradition? * he students wil be able to answer how Kabir epitomised the syncretic traditions of Indie. * {ht was the political and economic ideas of Truvallur and what was his take on ethics? SYLLABUS OF DSC-8 UNIT —1(5 hours) Foundations of Indian Political Thought: * An Overview on Sources of Indian Political Thought * Cultural and Territorial conception of india * Distinctive Features of Indian Political Thought UNIT = 11 (4 hours) Manu: * Authenticity of Manu smriti (Talking Point) * Social Laws and Conception of Justice UNIT —Iil (4 hours) Brihaspati: Statecraft, Justice, Inter-state Relations UNIT ~1V (4 hours) a Shukra/Usana wisn ; of Shukra-Niti Ne Politicshought, Dethi, Manohar, Brown, D. M, (1953), The Premises Of Indian. Poiiticay Thought. The Westem Poiitical Quarteny,6(2), 243-249, J.P. (1970). Dharma: ts Ny lence, 31(4), 356-366, Varma, Vishwanath Prasad (1953), Studies in Hindu Poitical Thought and its Metaphysical Foundations, Motial Banarsidas, Delhi Flood, Gavin (2003), Unit 2: Manu, ‘Manu (2006) + A Critical Edi 213, ature and Role in Anciant India The Indian Journal. of Political R. Sharma (1991) Political ‘Vara in Relat Ideas and tion to Law and Institutions in Ancient india,