Amatya Ramachandra Pant

Essays

From Kautilya to Chhatrapati Shivaji: The Unbroken Continuity of Hindu Political Institutions

From Kautilya to Chhatrapati Shivaji: The Unbroken Continuity of Hindu Political Institutions

We observe an unbroken continuity in the set up and functioning of Hindu institutions from the period of Kautilya up to Chhatrapati Shivaji

The Humane Principles of Statecraft that Powered a Hindu Kingdom: Amatya Ramachandra Pant’s Profound Guidebook

The Humane Principles of Statecraft that Powered a Hindu Kingdom: Amatya Ramachandra Pant’s Profound Guidebook

In this episode of Amatya Ramachandra Pant's Ajnapatra, we observe the incredibly humane principles that guided the great Hindu Kingdom of Chhatrapati Shivaji and his descendants. This must be made prescribed reading especially to our bureaucrats today.

How Shivaji Created a Hindu Kingdom from the Scratch: Ramachandra Pant's Vivid Description

How Shivaji Created a Hindu Kingdom from the Scratch: Ramachandra Pant's Vivid Description

In the second episode of the Ajnapatra, Ramachandra Pant gives us a highly inspirational and first hand narrative of how Shivaji created a Hindu Empire from the scratch

What the Majestic Ajnapatra of Amatya Ramachandra Pant Teaches us about 18th Century Hindu Polity: An Introduction

What the Majestic Ajnapatra of Amatya Ramachandra Pant Teaches us about 18th Century Hindu Polity: An Introduction

Amatya Ramachandra Pant, Shivaji's Finance Minister authored an extraordinary Ajnapatra or Royal Edict giving guidance to Sambhaji II. It is also the primary source giving us superb, first hand details of the India of that period.