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Draw parallels between Arthashastra tradition and the ‘Realist’ tradition represented by Machiavelli.

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  • Western Political Thought

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The Arthashastra is traditionally credited to Kautilya (Chanakya or Vishnugupta), minister of Chandragupta Maurya of Magadha in the fourth century BCE. Patrick Olivelle dates its surviving recension to the early centuries CE. The text was recovered by R. Shamasastry in 1905. Niccolò Machiavelli, the Florentine official, wrote The Prince some eighteen centuries after the Mauryan…

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  • Parallels in the Realist Core
  • Where the Parallel Stops
  • Contemporary Resonance
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