What is the nature of state and sovereignty in ancient india?
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It will be sufficiently summarized for the history with an ancient to the Indian to the republics which is currently known to survey.
They will be restricted to North India for the period about 400 A.D. The sovereign republics to become very extinct.
The Ancient Indian political through within an understood in the context of religious briefs with an earliest political order.
The Vedic period represented the lineage system but later on growing stratification in society indicated the tendency towards state formation.
With the formation of state the issue of governance of the state became a concern of the society.
In the Shanti Parva of the Mahabharata we find the reference to Mutsyanyaya, a condition in which small fishes become prey to big fishes.
This analogy was given to explain the anarchic condition in a society where there was no authority.
To avoid this situation, people together agreed to have a set of laws and to pray to the god for a king who would maintain law and order in society.