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This is the first book to study taxation and revenue collection through a detailed analysis of public finance and financial administration in four major Indian texts, namely Mahabharata, Manusmriti, Shukranitisar and Arthashastra, as philosophers trained in the Indian classic tradition and scholars working on ancient Indian wisdom mostly prefer a more abstract approach. India has a long tradition of at least two millennia of active philosophizing in the fields of logic, ethics, epistemology and metaphysics, though many in the West feel hesitant in according it the title "philosophy" in their sense of the word. Furthermore, few in India have taken it beyond philosophy towards active knowledge. This book re-visits and re-interprets the contexts of these texts with logic and objectivity to bring the pearls of knowledge found within into the present day, showing that Sanskrit is still the lingua franca of intellectual dialogue in India

Communication is said to be the backbone of the political system as the input and output functions of the systems largely depend on the communication capabilities and effectiveness. The political behaviour of the people in rural and semi urban areas is greatly susceptible to be influenced by their exposure to commnication media, which may in turn provide supplementary, different or additional impetus to their socio cultural attitudes framing the basic political cultural patterns. Therefore, the present book is an attempt to understand the relationship between communication trends and political