Indian political philosophy

Indian political philosophy may be categorized into several distinct traditions, including: the Vedic (c. 1200 BCE - 10th century CE); the Jain-Buddhist-Hindu (6th century BCE - 2nd century CE); the Indo-Islamic (10th century CE-1857); the modern or Indo-British (c. 1857 - 1947); and the contemporary (post-independence - present).^[1]

In India as elsewhere, political philosophy involves on the one hand speculations on the relationships between individual, society and state, and detailed treatises on the mechanics of statecraft, state policy, war and diplomacy and international relations.

Contemporary Indian political philosophy is an emerging discipline garnering increasing interest with the rise of comparative political theory. The Indian political theorist Aakash Singh Rathore has been attempting to cultivate the discipline with the 2010 book Indian Political Thought--A Reader (Routledge), and the 2017 monograph Indian Political Theory: Laying the Groundwork for Svaraj (Routledge).

External links

• Indian Political Theory: Laying the Groundwork for Svaraj: a push for a reorientation of Indian political philosophy.
• Indian Political Thought--A Reader: comprehensive introduction to the study of contemporary Indian political philosophy.

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