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FOREWORD BY

Ranjan Chakrabarti

West Begal
University,
Vice Chancellor, Vidyasagar

Ancient and Medieval


Indian Thoug
ThemeS and Traditions

Edited by
Ankit Tomar
Suratha Kumar Malik
SSAGE TEXTS
Contents

Foreword by Ranjan Chakrabarti bodE hra qidgn st so ausbl dod lo senl xix
Xxiii
Preface XXV
Acknowledgements xxvii
About the Editors and Contributors
Introduction by Sibaji Pratim Basu lnkd ottagae xxii

TRADITIONS
PART I: ANCIENT INDIAN THOUGHT AND
AIOHIAVEM
CHAPTER 1
aT 3
Dhärma in Ancient India: The Moral Law of the Cosmos
Suratha Kumar Malik

CHAPTER2 21
Ancient India: Conception and Forms of Community
Praveen Kumar

CHAPTER 3
32
Cradle of Hinduism
Vedas and the Brähmanic Tradition: The
Kanchan Saxena

CHAPTER 4 P 52
Manu: A Progenitor of Humanity
Mona Singh

CHAPTER 5
Yajiavalkya: A Vedic Sage
AP62

Swasti Alpana

CHAPTER 6
Tradition: A Tradition of Materialist Philosophy R 75
Cârväka-Lokyata
Devarakonda and Jayshree Jha
Balaganapathi
THOUGHT

INDIAN
MEDIEVAL

AND
ANCIENT

viii
Reformism B4
CHAPTER 7 Ascetic
An
Tradition:

Shramanic

Ankit Tomar

100
CHAPTER8
Treatise
Political

Sukraniti:
A

Prabira Sethy

and Anguttara Nikya 116


CHAPTER9
Theor of
Kingship
(Aggaiiasutta):

DighaNikiya
Ish N. Mishra

tbd) as d110
CHAPTER 10 the Kingship
and Dandaniti
Ideas on
tof Mahäbhäârata:
Varun Kumar Tripathi
1 o d o bes erolih8 olhmap
CHAPTER11

Thinker
s t b d evdaomi145
Pragmatic
Kautilya: A
Ramakrushna Pradhan

TRADITIONSs

PART II:
MEDIEVAL INDIAN
THOUGHT AND
A
CHAPTER 12 f oe163
and Religion
Medieval India: State, Society
Ritu Sharma

CHAPTER 13 175
on Good Sultan
and Ideal Polity
Ziyauddin Barani: Ideas
Chandra Mahanta
Santosh Kumar Mallik and Ramesh

CHAPTER 14 192
Abul Fazl: Views on Governance and Administration
Sumit Mukerji
insetlo20aeo
CHAPTER 15 o204
Islamic Tradition: A Tradition of Human Affairs and Classical Heritage
iftekhar Ahemmed TA
olloAnolad
A 215
CHAPTER 16
Sufi Tradition: A Tradition of Spiritualism and Tolerance
S. M. Azizuddin Husain

d g o e o l l l o v e l d lo a o b i l e n T A c b e T e n d o l
CHAPTER 17 224
abeoknoeadi
Kabir: An Indian Mystic Saint 9 e lban
Prabira Sethy
Contents ix

CHAPTER 18
Women in Bhakti Tradition: A Critical Reflection 244
Krishna Menon

CHAPTER 19
Syncretic Tradition: A Tradition of Assimilation 252
Rajendra Kumar Pandey

Index I-1

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