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- ↑ Ashok S. Chousalkar (10 September 2018). Revisiting the Political Thought of Ancient India: Pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra Tradition. SAGE Publishing India. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-93-5280-770-3.
- ↑ Surendra Nath Sen (1976). Administrative System of the Marathas. K. P. Bagchi. p. 2.
His Rajniti is a treatise on polity , in which he compiles the theories of public administration from old Sanskrit works . It could not, therefore, have any bearing on the actual government of Maharashtra as it then existed
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- ↑ Suresh Kumar Srivastava (1989). Sir Jadunath Sarkar, the Historian at Work. Anamika. p. 59. ISBN 978-81-85150-12-3.
