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Steel Frame of the State: Bureaucracy of the Gupta Empire in India Paperback – December 27, 2011

by Vakil Ahamad (Author)
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Serious studies of ancient imperial bureaucracies were neglected by scholars for a long time and considered to be irrelevant in relation to modern public administration. Indirectly Max Webber and Karl Marx promoted this attitude. Interest was generated later on with the rise of nationalism in Asian countries. Historians of India, Pakistan and Persia unravelled the structure and process of their ancient political institutions and administrative machinery initiating comparative studies later on. But this field is still not free from lingering prejudices and misinterpretations. This book focusses on the relevance of studying the imperial bureaucracy of the Gupta period(A.D. 320 to 550) for a deeper understanding of public administration. Greater part of northern India was under the political supremacy of a single Gupta dynasty. India during this period was divided into a large number of small kingdoms ruled by semi-autonomous or autonomous kings. Though their kingdoms were separate geo-political entities (dominions), their records show that their bureaucratic structures were on the whole of the same pattern or replica of the imperial bureaucracy.
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    188 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    December 27, 2011
  4. Dimensions
    5.91 x 0.43 x 8.66 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    9783846532836
  6. ISBN-13
    978-3846532836
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 3846532835
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (December 27, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 188 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9783846532836
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3846532836
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.91 x 0.43 x 8.66 inches
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The book contains so many grammatical and typographical errors that I must wonder if the author ever proofread his manuscript. Even worse, the same block of sloppily written sentences reappears out of the blue on multiple occasions. With such basic errors, it's incredibly difficult to place any faith in the soundness of the author's study. And of course, the author has no idea how to build an argument.
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