EXPLORING INDIGENOUS CONCEPTS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: LEARNING FOR LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE

KEYWORDS 
Kautilya Arthshaastra, Indigenous Research, Public administration, Raj Dharm Neeti

The discourses on public management majorly focus on the managerial approach in public sector organization and employees. Public governance orientation is also focussed on decentralized institutions. Both are about instilling competitiveness and an attempt towards displacing the rule-bound and hierarchical concepts of public Administration. Kincheloe and Steinberg (2008) suggested in their study on indigenous research that scholarship needs to move from binary reductive categories. This implies the need to look at the domain from a unified perspective. For instance, both centralizations, as well as decentralization, is needed in any governance structure. There is a need to identify the areas where decentralized approach can work; in which area strong leadership skills are desired; where the state cannot allow decentralization etc. To exploring these kinds of framework or concepts of co-existence of public administration and public management, the Arthshastra of Kautilya provides us deeper insights. The paper attempts to explore for such evidence from Kautilya Arthshaastra and concepts of Raj-Dharm Neeti from Mahabharat. one’s life.

Mr. Ankur Joshi, Mr. Puneet bindlish, Dr. Pawan Verma, Ms. Priyanka Dutt
The first three authors are Research Scholar and Doctoral Student at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India (MDI). They may be reached at ankurjoshi87@gmail.com, puneetbindlish@gmail. com, dr.pawanverma@outlook.com respectively.

The fourth author is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Studies at IIS. She may be reached at priyanka.m.dutt@gmail.com.