Taxation and revenue collection in ancient India : reflections on Mahabharata, Manusmriti, Arthasastra and Shukranitisar / by Sanjeev Kumar Sharma.

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Sharma, S. K. (Sanjeev Kumar) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781443894333
1443894338

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336.2/00934 23

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HJ2931

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Summary: 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 s.

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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 s.

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