Foundations of Indian political thought / V.R. Mehta.

1. Introduction
2. The cosmic vision: Manu
3. The Heroic vision: Valmiki and Vyasa
4. The moral vision: Sukra and Brihaspati
5. The pragmatic vision: Kautilya and his successors
6. The sramanic vision: Mahavira, Buddha and Somedeva
7. The imperial vision: Barni and Fazal
8. Renaissance and the Beginnings of modern thought
9. The integral vision: Sri Aurobindo and Sahu
10. The synthetic vision: Gandhi
11. The humanist and sociolist vision: M.N. Roy, Nehru and Lohia
12. The vision of Cosmopolitanism : Rabindranath Tagore
13. The individual, community and political order : An overview
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Index

This book is an introduction to the complex subject of the evolution of Indian political thought in terms of its continuities as well as discontinuities and attempts to articulate, explain and examine the concept of state in politics used by an ongoing tradition of enquiry.