svadhyaya (Study)

The study for samāja is focused on understanding human nature, society, and governance.

Primary

1. Statecraft
   1. Vyasa – Mahābhārata
   2. 📚 Kauṭilya – Arthaśāstra
   3. 📚 Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
   4. Plato – Republic
   5. Hamilton - Federalist Papers
2. Economics
   1. Adam Smith – The Wealth of Nations
   2. Friedrich Hayek – The Road to Serfdom
   3. Joseph Schumpeter – Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
3. Sociology & Psychology
   1. Max Weber – The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
   2. Sigmund Freud – Civilization and Its Discontents
   3. George Orwell – 1984
   4. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
4. War & Strategy
   1. B.H. Liddell Hart – Strategy
   2. Sun Tzu – The Art of War
   3. Carl von Clausewitz – On War
   4. 📚 Xenophon – Cyropaedia
5. History
   1. 📚 Will Durant – Lessons of History
   2. 📚 Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
   3. William L. Shirer – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
   4. 📚 Edward Gibbon – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Biographies

1. Plutarch – Lives