Taxation and Revenue Collection in India

This is one of the few works on taxation and revenue collection in Ancient India through a detailed analysis of public finance and financial administration in four major Indian texts, namely Mahabharata, Manusmriti, Arthashastra and Shukranitisar, as philosophers trained in the Indian classical tradition and scholars working on ancient wisdom mostly prefer a more abstract approach.This book revisits and reinterprets the contexts of these texts with logic and objectivity the bring the pearls of knowledge found within into the present day, showing that Sanskrit is still the lingua franca of intellectual dialogue in India.