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Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers | Third Edition | By Pearson
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Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers | Third Edition | By Pearson

by Himanshu Roy, M P. Singh
July 2024
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
19h 8m
English
Pearson India
Content preview from Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers | Third Edition | By Pearson

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Manu: Social Laws

—Nalini Sinha

Manu, the author of Manusmriti, is the first teacher, according to legends, to reveal the essence of humanity to mankind. He was the first legislator to prescribe norms of social life and practices, later incorporated in various Dharmashastras and Samhitas, premised on a moral view of history. Manusmriti is a pivotal text, which was presumably compiled, especially the passages on the caste system, only during the early centuries CE.1 It encompasses pragmatic visualization as well as idealization of life or how life should be lived. It is primarily concerned with dharma, which includes but also transcends the Western concepts of religion, duty, law, right, justice, practice and principle. It gives us a bird’s ...

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