Janapada State in Ancient India (An Old and Rare Book)

The period of Janapada States in Indian history was essentially a link between the Jana and the Imperial polities. Whereas the Janas were mobile communities without serious attachment to fixed territories, the Empires had well-defined geographical boundaries. The Janapada States were necessarily territorial but their boundaries could not be settled for a long time due to regular internecine conflicts among them. The pattern of organization of their polity and society kept changing in response to the dynamic dimensions of contemporary economic life. Up till now the historians have often presented only a glimpse of this age as an introduction to the stability and certainty of the Imperial period. The present treatise as such, is a praiseworthy attempt to present a comprehensive and systematic account of the Social organization and Political set-up of the Janapadas. The comparison of the Pre-Mauryan Janapada States with the City States in ancient Greece also forms part of this study.