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Compare and contrast the views of Kautilya and Machiavelli on Statecraft.

  • UPSC 2015, 2009
  • 15 marks
  • Indian Political Thought

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Jawaharlal Nehru, in The Discovery of India (1946), accepted the label "Indian Machiavelli" for Chanakya only in part, finding him the bigger figure. Some scholars turn the label around and suggest that Niccolò Machiavelli is better called the Italian Kautilya. Both thinkers treat statecraft as a technique of power, but they disagree on what that…

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  • Common Ground
  • Where They Part
  • Who Is More Ruthless?
  • What the Comparison Reveals
  • Conclusion
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