Hindu Polity - Hardcover

ABOUT THE BOOK- ‘ Hindu Polity’ in two volumes (Parts) – the first on Vedic Assemblies and Republics, the second on Monarchy and Imperial Systems – is a sketch of the constitutional life of the Hindus. The subject is great but its treatment has to by modest. The works of purva-suris had long been hidden; the path opened by them had long been lost. It had to be researched. In 1911-13 a probable line was laid to dig and discover ‘ The Ancients’ highway in the field of Polity. In these pages that line has been deepened and widened. And the way of the Fathers is in sight. The author made a special study to find out what constitional progress, if any, Ancient Indians had achieved. In 1911 and 1912 some results of the study were published in the legal journal the Calcutta Weekly Notes and the Calcutta monthly the Modern Review. About The Author - Kashi Prasad Jayaswal (1881 – 1937) was an Indian historian and lawyer. Jayaswal's works Hindu Polity (1918) and History of India, 150 A.D. to 350 A.D. (1933) are classics of ancient Indian historical literature. Among other things, he is credited with showing that Indian republics, based on the principles of representation and collective decision-making, were among the oldest and most powerful of the ancient world. K. P. Jayaswal was born in Mirzapur, North-Western Provinces (now in Uttar Pradesh), and graduated from Allahabad University. He went on to Jesus College, Oxford University, where he was awarded the Davis Scholarship in Chinese and graduated with a M.A. in Ancient Indian History in 1909. He was called to the Bar of Lincoln's Inn in London in 1910. After returning to India, Jayaswal set up practice at the Calcutta High Court.Historian R. C. Majumdar criticized his theories about the Gupta history as "too conjectural and full of wild guesses to be seriously considered".