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Patterns of Kingship and Authority in Traditional Asia book cover

1st Edition

Patterns of Kingship and Authority in Traditional Asia

Edited By I. W. Mabbett Copyright 1985
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge
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There has been a tendency to neglect the political life of Asia, in favour of religious and aesthetic considerations. The myth of the ‘changeless East’ dies hard. Few people are aware that the earliest legislation for the rights of the common man go back to the Sumerians and that outlines for a social contract were drawn up by Indian Buddhists two thousand years before Locke and Rousseau. First... Read more

1. Introduction: The Comparative Study of Traditional Asian Political Institutions
I. W. Mabbett

2. Japanese Kingship
Harold Bolitho

3. Traditional Kingship in China
Paul Rule

4. From Village Elder to King: The Evolution of Kingship in Ancient and Early Mediaeval Korea
K. H. J. Gardiner

5. A Survey of the Background to the Variety of Political Traditions in South-East Asia
I. W. Mabbett

6. The Early Development of Kingship in Pre-Muslim India
Sarva Daman Singh

7. Kingship in Islam: Islamic Universalism through the Caliphate
S. A. A. Rizvi

8. Ancient Afro-Asian Kingship
Brian Colless

9. Malay Kingship in a Burmese Perspective
A. C. Milner

Biography

I. W. Mabbett is a historian and educator. His research interests include ancient Indian history, Buddhist philosophy and history, and the comparative study of Asian religions.

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