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100			_aTyagi, Ruchi
245			_aAdministration in ancient India: An introductory outline
260			_c2010
300			_ap.148-178.
362			_aJan-Mar
520			_aOriginal historical and archaeological sources along with the voluminous traditional literature from the Vedic period. Buddhist and Jain texts, the Puranic literature and the writings of Panini, Kautilya, Patanjali, Megasthenese, Fahien and Huen-Tsang, etc. offer a dependable account of administration in ancient India. This article presents a critical and comparative study of the important aspects of polity and public administration in that period. Drawing mainly on these sources it portrays structure of government, bureaucracies, provincial and district administration, revenue and criminal justice system. - Reproduced.
650			_aPublic administration
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aIndian Journal of Public Administration
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909			_a87242
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