AN OVERVIEW OF PLATO AND ASPECTS OF THE HINDU POLITICAL THOUGHTS

Abstract

The Generalized Notions of the Hindu Political Thought: India, with an area as extensive Europe minus Russia and with a large and diverse population, has had an active political history. The existence o autonomous oligarchy city states is recorded in the earliest Hindu tradition. As early as the fourth century B.C. Hindu empire of the Mauryas has established which include a more extensive territory than the present India. In the following centuries kingdoms and empires rose and fell, warfare among the various principalities was almost constant, and frequent attempts were made by ambitions rulers to emite India into a world empire. State systems were not long-lived, and dynamitic revolutions were numerous. The political development of India resembled in many ways that of Europe, and was marked by a growing political consciousness and by the creation of a considerable among of political philosophy.