Indian Civilization Analysis

The Sixth and Seventh lectures cover the organization of the communities of the north while the Eighth lecture explores the organization system of the southern societies. On the other hand, lecture nine explains the various versions of accounts responsible for diversity in the Indian religious organization. According to the lectures, the Indian communities had a formalized way of governing themselves before the westerners led by Alexander the Great invaded the region (Lal). To explain, the natives were organized into kingdoms ruled and managed by the kings. Also, the residents had an organized system to defend the communities from external attacks and alienation from other realms. As an outcome, the region experienced a new empire with a unique political and administrative structure.

Even though, the invasion results in new realms, the diversity in the Indian political organization prevails because there is no standard governmental unit in the Indian after the departure of the invaders. According to the lectures, the northern and southern regions have different empires with different religious and political organization. To illustrate, the northern part is dominated by the empire of Ashoka and the Mauryan Empire while the Tamil empire dominates the southern region (Lal). The argument implies that there is a difference in the political organization between the northern and southern Indian communities. Moreover, leaders with the Buddhism background such as emperor Ashoka are ecumenist, tolerance and committed to nonviolence (Lal). These leaders institutionalize Buddhism by their efforts to combine all the Buddhist teachings and texts by sending their royal servants to some places such as Greece to collect the corpus texts of these lessons (Lal).