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The book “Buddhkalin Samajik Aarthik, Shaichhik, Rajnitik Awastha” by Dr. Tilak Ram Acharya presents a critical analysis of the societal, economic, educational, and political condition of ancient India during the Buddhist period. The author elaborates on minute details of the Buddhist era to show just how the society was organized, what kind of economic practices existed, and how politics played its part in shaping the lives of people.
The book discusses at length the educational institutions of that time, such as the renowned universities at Nalanda and Takshashila, and elaborates on the teaching methodology and syllabus followed. Dr. Acharya relates these ancient practices with modern issues and gives an insight into how the bequest of the Buddhist period continues to affect contemporary education and current social mores.
The book explains how Buddhism affected governance and state policies by investigating the political scenario of the time. It probes into the relation between religion and politics and how Buddhist principles were applied in administration. This book for understanding the Buddhist period provides a lot of insight into solving many contemporary socio-economic and political problems.
In the Buddhist Period, around 600-400 B.C. during Gautama Buddha’s time, the Indian subcontinent was undergoing soci-economic and political changes, tremendously so at that. The Vedic tribal system was crumbling; enormous states and cities began to arise. *Socio-Economic and Political Landscape during the Buddhist Period*, will investigate those changes; of course, the emergence of enlightenment and the relevance of Buddhism to all outcomes contributed to the evolution of this defining period.
Dr. Tilak Ram Acharya has on a heaping of materials from Buddhist literature and effectively provides depth to a thorough investigation of the social, economic, and political background of this period. It isn’t a mere listing of facts but was presented in a systematic analytical manner for enhanced reading; particularly the focus will be in the theme areas of social stratification, urbanization, and power class functionality and its implications.
The caste structure and the indomitable division of society into Brahmin (the priestly caste), Kshatriya (the warrior caste), Vaishya (the trader caste), and Shudra (the laborer class) permeates the text. To this outcome, Dr.Tilak Ram Acharya builds upon the idea that Vaishya gradually dismantled the dominance of Brahmin and Kshatriya, but nonetheless constructs city-states and trade routes to develop a proper class social mobility within the parameters of the caste structure.
This book also throws light on the contemporary educational institutions, system of education and methodology of teaching because without knowing the then prevailing circumstances it is not possible to study any modern subject correctly. It has been cautioned by Dr.Tilak Ram Acharya in his preface itself that every fact stated there should be taken as literary evidence but from the arrangement and language of narration one can know very well that they have been put forward in this way after his deep study and consideration only.
This book will be useful for students, teachers and researchers as well as general readers interested in knowing Ancient Indian History. The work will enable us to have an insight into socio culturul [sic] academic, intellectual economic and political aspects of early Buddhist period that prevailed about two thousand years back.
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