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    The Hindu concept of state viewed it as a divine institution established to uphold dharma and promote the welfare of citizens. It was considered an organic entity with the king as its head. The Islamic concept also saw the state as divine, with its aims being to establish equality, end racial differences, and protect individuals based on the principles of unity of God and humanity. Both traditions saw the state as playing an important role in establishing law, order, and welfare.

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    The Hindu concept of state viewed it as a divine institution established to uphold dharma and promote the welfare of citizens. It was considered an organic entity with the king as its head. The Islamic concept also saw the state as divine, with its aims being to establish equality, end racial differences, and protect individuals based on the principles of unity of God and humanity. Both traditions saw the state as playing an important role in establishing law, order, and welfare.

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    The Hindu concept of state viewed it as a divine institution established to uphold dharma and promote the welfare of citizens. It was considered an organic entity with the king as its head. The Islamic concept also saw the state as divine, with its aims being to establish equality, end racial differences, and protect individuals based on the principles of unity of God and humanity. Both traditions saw the state as playing an important role in establishing law, order, and welfare.

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    The Hindu Concept Of State

    • The concept of state occupies a significant


    place in both the Hindu and Islamic thoughts.
    • Both regard the state as an instrument for the
    establishment of law and order, and providing
    welfare services to the society.
    • The classical Hindu thought and early Islam
    view both regard the state as a divine
    institution.
    • The State in Hindu Thought :
    • The concept of State is predominant in the classical Hindu political
    thought.
    • The science of the study of the state was known by several terms
    like – Rajadharma, Rajyasastra, Dandaniti, Nitisastra and
    Arthasastra.
    • From the works written in the ancient India, one can probably
    derive four main theories regarding the origin of the state –
    • 1.The Divine Origin Theory
    • 2. The Social Contract Theory
    • 3. The Force Theory
    • 4. The Patriarchal Theory
    • Both Kautilya and Manu had expounded the
    organic theory.
    • They held that “the state was not a loose
    assemblage of parts, each having its own
    interests and moving at its own will ; it was
    characterized by an organic unity “.
    • The king was regarded as the supporter and
    upholder of the law ; he was the servant of the
    people as well as the trustee.
    • The divinity resided in the officer of the kingship
    and not in the person of the king.
    • The monarchy was the common form of government ,
    though instances of oligarchy, city-states and the
    republics were not uncommon.
    • The seven constituents of the state were – The King,
    The Ministry, The Territory, The Resources, The Forts,
    The Military Forces and the Allies.
    • The Aim of the state was to promote the all-sided
    progress of the citizens.
    • It carried on both the constituent and ministrant
    functions
    • Its four fold aims were the promotion of dharma,
    artha, kama and moksha.
    • The Islamic Concept of State :
    • The rise and expansion of Islam commences with
    Prophet Muhammad in 610 A.D.
    • The Prophet Muhammad preached far-reaching
    principles of a new social order, enshrined in two
    revolutionary concepts – unity of God and unity
    of human origin.
    • These principles had a very deep effect on the
    social and economic institutions of the middle
    ages.
    • The idea of State of Islam has a theological and
    metaphysical significance.
    • It is based on the faith in unity of God and unity of
    human origin
    • The state is an instrument of supreme social and
    political value.
    • Its working principles are equality, solidarity and
    freedom.
    • It is a means of making these principles a living factor
    in the intellectual and emotional life of mankind.
    • It demands loyalty to God not to thrones.
    • God is the ultimate spiritual basis of all life, loyalty to God
    virtually amounts to man’s loyalty to his own ideal nature.
    • The functions of the state are to establish equality, end
    racial differences and slavery, and safeguard the individual’s
    life and property.
    • It rendered all distinctions between man and man invalid.
    • It proclaims that there is no virtue except in good deeds,
    and no nobility except in piety.
    • It lays down the equality of men before law.
    • The aim of the State is to create a classless society, based
    on human equality.

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