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AEC 2: Course B: Intermediate Administrative Structure in Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra

(GE-1)
Credit distribution, Eligibility and Pre-requisites of the Course

Course Credits Credit distribution of the


Eligibility Pre- Department
title & course criteria requisite Offering the
Code of the Course
Lecture Tutorial Practical/
course
Practice
02 02 00 NA 12th Pass Nil Sanskrit

Semester Core Elective Generic Ability Skill Internship/ Value Total


(DSC) (DSE) Elective Enhance- Enhance- Apprentice- addition Credits
4 credits 4 credits (GE) ment ment ship/Project/ course
4 credits Course Course Community (VAC)
(AEC) – 2 (SEC) – outreach 2 credits
credits 2 credits 2 credits
I DSC - 1 Choose one
DSC - 2 NIL GE-1 AEC -I from a pool NIL VAC- I 22 credits
DSC - 3 of SEC
courses

Learning Objectives

The government policies mentioned in Arthaśāstra indicate that the ruler of the kingdom or the
country should follow the duties assigned to him for the welfare of the people. The aim of this course
is to make the students acquainted with various aspects of Administrative parts and his
responsibilities mentioned in Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra.

Learning outcomes

After going through this course, students will know the most important aspect of Arthaśāstra was
public welfare even in an autocratic agrarian state. In addition, they will know King was the head
and the main function of him was military judicial legislative and executive which in the present is
the function of the president.

SYLLABUS OF AEC-1

Unit: 1 Credit: 1
Introduction to Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra: Author, Structure of the Text, Editions and
Translations, Introduction to all Adhikaraṇas.
Unit: 2 Credit: 1
Saptānga Theory
Concept of Welfare State
Samāharta
Sannidhātā
Dharmasthīya
Kaṇṭakaśodhana
Sitādhyakṣa

Essential/recommended readings
1. R.P Kangle (ed.) Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya, Motilal Banarsidas, Delhi, 1965
2. उदयवीर शा ी ( अनुवाद) कौिट य अथशा , मेहरचं ल मणदास, िद ली, 1968
3. कै लाशच जैन, ाचीन भारतीय समािजक और आिथक सं थाएं, म य देश िह दी थ अकादमी, भोपाल, 1976
4. A. S. Altekar, State and Government in Ancient India, Motilal Banarsidas, Delhi,
2011
5. वाच पित गैरोला, कौिटलीयम् अथशा म् (िह दी या योपेतम्), वारणसी, चौख भा िव ाभवन, सं करण 2015

Suggested readings

1. Kautilya Arthshastra, translated by R Shyamshastri, Delhi, Choukhamba Sanskrit


Pratisthan.
2. R. S. Sharma, Aspects of Political Ideas & Institutions in Ancient India, Delhi, 1996
3. शिश ितवारी, सं कृ त सािह य म रा वाद एवं भारतीय राजशा , िव ािनिध काशन, िद ली, 2013
4. U.N. Ghosal, A History of Indian Political Ideas, Bombay, 1956.

Examination scheme and mode: Subject to directions from the Examination


Branch/University of Delhi from time to time

Basic Structure of Question Paper & Division of Marks 75

Questions 03 (from Unit 1) 03 x 10 = 30


Questions 02 (from Unit 2) 03 x 10 = 30
Short Notes (from Unit 2) 03 x 05 = 15

Total Marks: (I+II) 75

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