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Taxation and Revenue Collection in Ancient India - Head Work
by Author(s): Sanjeev Kumar Sharma
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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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Author Biography
Dr Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, Professor Department of Political Science in CCS University, Meerut, India, is presently the Hon. General Secretary and Treasurer, Indian Political Science Association (IPSA). He has been the Editor of The Indian Journal of Political Science, the quarterly journal of the Indian Political Science Association (IPSA) besides being the founder Editor of the Hindi journal of the IPSA, Bhartiya Rajniti Vignan Shodh Patrika. He has supervised a number of research scholars. He is also the Chief Editor of Bharatiya Manyaprad: International Journal of Indian Studies. He has published more than fifty research papers, large number of reviews and articles. He has also published and edited books and monographs. He is a prolific thinker and thoughtful orator of contemporary and ancient polity engaged in organizing International and National academic events. His main areas of interest have been Political Sociology, Ancient Indian Polity and Indian Political System. A widely travelled academician, he has an excellent knowledge of Sanskrit. Widely travelled in India and abroad, he has visited South Africa, UAE, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Jordan, United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Mauritius for academic pursuits.
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