Ancient Indian Political Economy
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32351/rca.v8.326
Keywords:
ancient history of India, political, economy, historia Antigua de la India, política, economíaAbstract
We publish the following document by Dr. Ratan Basu as a jewel worth preserving to have a clearer vision of the history of India and how the social, political and economic forms developed. Based on the ancient Indian traditions of the indigenous sources of the story that are scattered in the Vedas, Puranas, the epics -Rāmāyana and Mahābhārata-, Buddhist texts, Jains and rock excavations and inscriptions as sources of information, it broadens the focus of his research since when it comes to chronological history - as we generally understand by the term "history" - the ancient Indian texts hardly provide a coherent idea. That is why it includes in this document foreign authors from Escílax de Carianda through Greek, Chinese, Christian authors up to the beginning of the 20th century.
This systematic and in-depth investigation is essential to understand the origins and sources of the first manuscript found of the Pancha Tantra dated at the dawn of the 11th century, which give a complete account of the society, economy and politics of ancient India so that scholars in tantric philosophy they can establish with greater precision and scientific rigor the category "tantrism" as a source of the emancipatory movements that culminated in the constitution of 1949 and article 15 motorized among others by B.R. Ambedkar.
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