Indian Political Thought

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Indian political scene as we find it today, a thorough study of the prominent political thinkers is very essential. The book seek to be an introduction to the evolution of Indian Political thought. It is an attempt to articulate, explain and examine the concepts of social and political thinker. The aim of this book is to understand the Indian Society and Politics. Gandhi's political thought stems from different traditions, Eastern and Western. But unlike other philosophers and political scientists of both the East and the West, only he could emerge not only as the man of destiny of the nation but also as the man of the millennium.

Dr. K.B. Haldar, Associate Professor, Deptt of Political Science, KGR College Devnagar. He obtained his all higher qualifications from Lucknow University. He has the prolong experience of teaching at UG and PG level students at various colleges. He has supervised and guided around thirty seven research scholars. He has penned several articles, published in various reputed journals and magazines of national and international repute.

Indian political scene as we find it today, a thorough study of the prominent political thinkers is very essential.

The political philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi as it urbanized throughout the course of his political behaviors maintained an essential stability with earlier strands of thought. The essentially Indian spiritual approach to politics, urbanized by Vivekananda and Aurobindo Ghosh establish its sustained expression in Gandhi. In 1909, in Hind Swaraj, he accepted the vital distinctions made flanked by society and state and India and the west. He extolled the spirituality of India and juxtaposed it to the violent, politically corrupt nature of the European state.

A system of political beliefs and speculations requires a general understanding of the symbolic forms in terms of which reality is comprehended by a people. Men reveal reality to themselves through particular ways of seeing, which discriminate objects and events from the whole in which they are embedded. Observation is purposive behaviour, and in the first stages of the development of human knowledge acts of discrimination and the assignment of meaning are closely bound together.

Portions of the great heroic epic the Mahabharata were influenced by Sankhya doctrine-perhaps the most important philosophical influence on the development of early Hinduism-before the epic was revised to conform with Vedanta teaching, a system more congenial to the priestly group. The atheistic and rationalist Sankhya philosophic system, of ancient origin but outside the Vedic tradition, shares certain features with Buddhism, such as the belief in the "constant becoming" of the world and a conception of life as suffering. But the Sankhya of the Mahabharata embraces a concept of God, who is the expression of the highest excellence. Many of the incidents in the Mahabharata refer back to the remote Vedic period, but the major brahman modifications and additions probably date from the second and first centuries B.C.