Main Features of the Indian Political Thinking

Indian Political thinking is one of the most developed political thinking in the history of political thought.
The impulse for philosophy in general and political philosophy in particular may originate in curiosity or in doubt or in faith. According to the Greeks knowledge arises from curiosity.  “You Greeks are always boys; there is not an old man among you; you are young in your souls,” said the Egyptian priest in Plato’s Timaeus.  He was right.  They were a race of seekers after unknown truth.  “All  men want to know” said Aristotle and he added “the feeling of wonder makes the true Philosopher, for this is the only source of Philosophy.”  It is because of this curiosity that Greece is one of the mainsprings of civilization.
In contrast, European Political thinking arose from doubt.
According to the tradition of Indian thinkers’ source of knowledge is faith or reverence.  The Bhagwad Gita makes it quite clear that knowledge can be attained only through reverence and the skeptics are bound to be ruined.