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Sir William Meyer Lectures 1929-30 Madras University. Evolution of Hindu Administrative Institutions in South India

1931

It cannot transcend the wit of man to bring into any form of administratiOn the actual democratic spirit that can carry on the administration for the benfit of the masses as a whole not in the form of the paternal autocracy or a worse bureacracy which would blatantly claim the special guardianship of the masses as against the classes but certainly in the more genuine form of democracy wh [...] In modern parlance therefore Hindustan Dakhan and South India indicate the three divisions of the country: Axydvartta of Maim ' between the Himalayas and the Vindhyas or Hindustan of modern times; Dakhan the territory between the double frontier of VindhyNarmada on the north and Tungabadra-Krishna in the south similarly marks the Dakhan; the region south of thtS is what is known as Soruth [...] 'prom Kätydyana onwards the knowledge of the Sanskritists extends and in the scholia of the latter there is an indication of knowledge of the south perhaps even beyond the limits of the Dakhan. [...] The Periplus states clearly that the country in the interior set over against the coast of what is now known as the Northern Konkan was a country of the great forest 2 Dan daka of Indian sources So then we come to this that what we call ift modern times South India comprised the land south of the line of say the 14th degree of north latitude marked by the Asokan edicts and constituted the Tamil [...] The early Vedic cereinonies seem to demand the active participation of this group of eight to makethe ceremony of-coronation complete and the ceremony is called Ratna Havis offerings by the Ratnins and these are the commander of the army the Brahman priest the Kshatriya the queen the court ministrel the Grainani head of the towns the chamberlain the officer in charge of the treasury th
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Pages
400
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146587
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i S. Aiyangar view
Frontmatter
i-x S. Aiyangar view
Errata
xi-xi S. Aiyangar view
Administrative Institutions of South India Lecture I
1-27 S. Aiyangar view
Lecture II-Political Ideas and Ideals
28-79 S. Aiyangar view
Lecture III. Administration in the Age of the Pallavas
80-100 S. Aiyangar view
Lecture IV. Administrative Institutions in the Age of the Great Pallavas
101-129 S. Aiyangar view
Lecture V. Rural Administration under the Chola Empire
130-245 S. Aiyangar view
Lecture VI. The General Extent of the Chola Empire and the Divisions Constituting the Empire
246-359 S. Aiyangar view
Appendix
360-364 S. Aiyangar view
Conclusion
365-380 S. Aiyangar view
Index
381-387 S. Aiyangar view

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