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    Mahabharata, the Great Indian Epic: Economic and Political Ideas
    Mahabharata, the Great Indian Epic: Economic and Political Ideas
    Mahabharata, the Great Indian Epic: Economic and Political Ideas
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    Mahabharata, the Great Indian Epic: Economic and Political Ideas

    By Ratan Lal Basu

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    The book endeavors to depict some of the economic and political ideas embedded in the great Indian epic Mahabharata

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRatan Lal Basu
    Release dateJun 20, 2011
    ISBN9781458116338
    Mahabharata, the Great Indian Epic: Economic and Political Ideas
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    Ratan Lal Basu

    ADDRESS: KOLKATAPh. D. in EconomicsProfession: Retired from 1st January, 2009 from the post of Reader in Economics and Teacher-in-Charge, Bhairab Ganguly College, Kolkata, India

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      Mahabharata, the Great Indian Epic - Ratan Lal Basu

      Mahabharata, the Great Indian Epic: Economic & Political Ideas

      Ratan Lal Basu

      Copyright 2011 Ratan Lal Basu Smashwords Edition

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      Contents

      Section-I Introduction

      Section-II Divine Origin of the King

      Section-III Virtues of the Ideal King

      Section-IV Duties of the King

      Section-V Recruitment of Government Officials

      Section-VI Revenue Administration

      Section-VII Caste System & Division of Labor

      Notes

      References

      The Author

      Section-I Introduction

      As regards the answer to the question, ‘which is the greatest literary creation in human history’, my unequivocal answer is: the great Indian Epic Mahabharata composed according to ancient Indian texts by the great sage and scholar Vyasadeva. The epic touches upon all aspects of human life, the complexities of human relations embracing all the conceivable strata of the society, the multifarious dimensions of clashes and contradictions & intricacies of the economic and political issues, the objectives and modus operandi of a welfare oriented state ensuring growth, equity and justice - in a nutshell, the essence of human knowledge embedded in all the ancient Indian texts on religion, laws, statecraft, economics and extra-mundane philosophy.

      In Santi Parva of the epic, most of the knowledge on statecraft, economics and moral philosophy are disseminated to the King Yudhisthira by their grand father Bhishma lying on deathbed of the arrows of Arjuna. He had to go through this ordeal as a punishment for a crime committed in the heaven[1] About the origin of the vast body of knowledge, Bhishma states that in the Krita age[2] people were righteous and honest. But soon greed, lust and other vices corrupted human society and it was at the point of losing all moral and ethical teachings learnt in course of millennia. The great thinkers and the gods approached the creator praying for the way out and in

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