HINDU SOCIOLOGY: Book I : Non-Political; Book II : Political
Benoy Kumar Sarkar
HINDU SOCIOLOGY: Book I : Non-Political; Book II : Political
Benoy Kumar Sarkar
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ISBN9788131610961
Publication Year2019
Pages636 pages
BindingHardback
Sale TerritoryIndia Only
About the Book
The work is mainly an analytical study of Sukracharya’s code so that the data of Hindu Sociology collected here reflect generally those phases of Indian cultural evolution which have influenced the authors of the Sukra cycle. This Hindu Sociology therefore is more or less a statical picture and represents chiefly such landmarks in the culture history of the Hindus as are embodied in the single document Sukraniti.
The present volume is divided into two books: (1) Non-Political and, (2) Political.
Book I (Non-Political) comprise:
•Relativity of the Nitisastras
•The Data of Ancient Indian Geography
•The Data of Ancient Indian Ethnology
•The Data of Ancient Indian Mineralogy
•The Data of Ancient Indian Botany
•The Data of Ancient Indian Zoology
•Appendices by Dr. Seal
Book II (Political) comprise:
•A Preface to Hindu Politics
•The Economic Foundations of the State
•The Philosophical Affiliations of Sukra’s Materialism
•The Categories of International Law
Contents
BOOK I – NON-POLITICAL
Chapter I – Relativity of the Nitisastras
Section 1 – Hindu Culture and Sociology in Sukranîti
Section 2 – Landmarks in the History of Hindu Political Development
Section 3 – Milestones in the History of Hindu Political Speculation
Section 4 – Unity and Diversity in Indian national life
Section 5 – Preliminary spade-work
Chapter II – The Data of Ancient Indian Geography
Section 1 – Sukranîti as a source of Geographical Information
Section 2 – General Geographical Facts
Section 3 – General Aspect of the country
Section 4 – Climate and Soils
Section 5 – Flora and Fauna
Chapter III – The Data of Ancient Indian Ethnology
Section l – Sukranîti as a source of Ethnological Information
Section 2 – The Races
Section 3 – Identification
Chapter IV – The Data of Ancient Indian Mineralogy
Section l – Sukranîti as the “Architectonic” Science
Section 2 – The Synthetic Philosophy of Sukrâchâryya
Section 3 – The Place of Mineralogy in Sukranîti
Section 4 – History of Hindu Mineralogy
Section 5 – History of Hindu Mineralogy (contd.)
Section 6 – General Remarks on Metallurgy in Hindu Life and Thought
Section 7 – The Doctrine of Seven Metals
Section 8 – The Economic Mineralogy of Sukrâchâryya’s India
Section 9 – General remarks on Gems in Sukranîti
Section 10 – The Doctrine of Nine Gems
Section 11 – The Economic Mineralogy of Sukrâchâryya’s India
Section 12 – Miscellaneous
Chapter V – The Data of Ancient Indian Botany
Section 1 – Sukranîti as a source of Botanical Information
Section 2 – Identification of the Sukra Flora
Section 3 – The Locale of Sukranîti
Section 4 – Forestry
Section 5 – Horti-Flori-Arbori-culture
Section 6 – Agriculture
Section 7 – Botany as Science
Section 8 – Preliminary Survey of Hindu Botany
Chapter VI – The Data of Ancient Indian Zoology
Section 1 – The Secular Sciences of the Hindus
Section 2 – The Alleged Decline of Hindu Intellect
Section 3 – The Zoological Lore of the Hindus
Section 4 – The Sukra Fauna
Section 5 – Mammals in Sukranîti
Section 6 – Aves in Sukranîti
Section 7 – Reptiles in Sukranîti
Section 8 – Pisces in Sukranîti
Section 9 – Invertebrates in Sukranîti
Section 10 – Agricultural Live-stock in Sukranîti
Section 11 – Economic Zoology in Sukranîti
Section 12 – The Animal-Corps in Sukranîti
Section 13 – Horses
Section 14 – Elephants
Section 15 – Camels and Bulls
Section 16 – The Anatomy of the Vertebrates
Section 17 – Organisation of Veterinary Department in the Sukra Polity
Appendices by Dr. Seal
A. Hindu Ideas about Plants and Plant Life
B. Hindu Classification of Animals
C. Hindu Physiology and Biology
D. Hindu Mechanics
E. Hindu Acoustics
BOOK II – POLITICAL
Chapter I – A Preface to Hindu Politics
Section 1 – Sukranîti in the Grammar of Social Science
Section 2 – The Methodology of Comparative Politics
Section 3 – Fundamentals of Nîti
Section 4 – Hindu Achievements in Democracy
Section 5 – The Date and Locale of Sukranîti
Chapter II – The Economic Foundations of the State
Section 1 – Materialistic Interpretation in Asian Philosophy
Section 2 – The Territory
Section 3 – Wealth and Property
Section 4 – Arts and Crafts
Section 5 – The Human Factor
Section 6 – The Organization of Industry and Commerce
Section 7 – The Problem of Labor
Section 8 – Prices and Profits
Section 9 – The Consumption of Wealth
Section 10 – State House-keeping
Chapter III – The Philosophical Affiliations of Sukra’s Materialism
Section 1 – Sukra’s Economics in Hindu Science
Section 2 – The Problem of ‘Modernism’ in Sukranîti
Section 3 – Alleged Hindu Anticipations of Modern Philosophy
Chapter IV – The Categories of International Law
Section 1 – The Saptanga is International Person
Section 2 – International Relations and International Law in Ancient Europe
Section 3 – International Relations and International Law in Hindu India
Section 4 – International Jurists of the Sukra Cycle
Appendix
Hindu Politics in Italian
The Date of Kamandaki
Hindu Activism
Arthasastra in Italian
Hindu Gilds
The Kautilya Question
Mandala as a Philosophical Category
Kamandaki in Italian
Machiavellism
Shamasastry
Ghoshal
A General Estimate of the Italian Researchers
About the Author / Editor
Benoy Kumar Sarkar (1887–1949), a Bengali social scientist and political activist who left India for several years on the eve of the First World War to become a leading anti-imperial intellectual with a global outlook. A pioneering thinker, Sarkar was a renaissance figure in pre-independence Bengal. Although he had degrees in English and History, he was a Professor of Economics at Calcutta University. He wrote over fifty books on social issues, art, philosophy, comparative religion and other topics.
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