White Umbrella : Indian political thought from Manu to Gandhi
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THIS BOOK has been written to provide the Western reader
with a concise survey of Hindu political ideas. Various
works have been published by Indian scholars, but these
erudite studies have generally been written for Indian
readers or Orientalists, and deal with rather specialized
fields. Although there are several American publications onn
Chinese political theory, the Indian field has been largely
neglected in this country. The plan of the present work is
to construct a brief analysis of Indian thought together with
a series of selections from the Hindu political classics.
This is not a history of the origin and development of
ideas, but rather a presentation of the landmarks of the
Hindu political tradition as seen by Indians themselves. No
claim is made that these elements were fixed and unchang-
ing. Such studies as Ghoshal's History of Hindu Political
Theories and Kane's monumental History of Dharmašāstra
have indicated a long evolution. But the ideas presented
here are those which have been most persistent in historical
times. There is considerable semantic controversy over the
terms "Indian." "Hindu," "Hindi," etc., which is beyond
the scope of this work. Although "Hindi" has been suggested
as a more fitting word than "Hindu" (Nehru, Discovery of
India, p. 65), the latter has become established in Western
usage. In these pages (except in occasional specific context),
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