Indian political thought: secular politics (socialism to extreme communism)

The first in the series of INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT in 3 volumes is 'Hindu Politics from Manu to Madhok, followed by 'Secular Politics' influenced by personages like Gandhi, Vinoba and Nehru. The third volume also is 'Secular Politics' studied from the viewpoint of Socialists and Communists, with a sprinkling of ideas from M.N. Roy and Subhas Chandra Bose, ending with the Naxi lite activities and the split within the Com munists.
To my surprise, Kautalya's like Manu's has been overmuch euologised by previous authors what to my mind is common place philosophy called 'Chanakyanceti'.
The knowledge in those days was confined merely to the four Vedas, six Shastras, 18 Purans and a few Smrities etc., as opposed to the present-day lacs and lacs of books that the intellectual has to choose from for satiat ing his hunger. All literature issued in ancient times was in the shape of a list of do's and dont's. The order to be obeyed was godly; the punishment was divine.
Thinking from Swami Dayanand or the RSS leaders, Savarkar and other modern Hindu and Sikh philosophers, is nothing but a religious discourse, following the unalterable laws called Dharma. The laws pure and simple when wrapped in the intricacies of man-made godly awe, were dubbed as Dharma-a frightening and never to-be-dis obeyed set of principles.