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CONTENTS:-
1. Arthasastra: Its Scope and Origin
2. The Relation of Arthasastra to Dharmasastra
3. The Content, Form and Source of Kautilya Arthasastra
4. The Author, Date of Arthasastra
5. The State in Arthasastra
6. Society and Social Life
7. State Economy
8. State Administration
9. Law and Administration of Justice
10. Internal Security
11. Defence and External Affairs
12. Introduction to English Translation
13. Book One: Concerning Topic of Training
14. Book Two (Part One): The Activities of the Heads of Departments
15. Book Two (Part Two): The Activities of the Heads of Departments (Contd.)
16. Book Two (Part Three): The Activities of the Heads of Departments (Concluded)
17. Book Three: Concerning Judges
18. Book Four: The Suppression of Criminals
19. Book Five: Secret Conduct
20. Book Six: Circle of Kings as the Basis
21. Book Seven: The Six Measures of Foreign Policy
22. Book Eight: Concerning the Topic of Calamities
23. Book Nine: The Activity of the King about to March
24. Book Ten: Concerning War
25. Book Eleven: Policy Towards Oligarchies
26. Book Twelve: Concerning the Weaker King
27. Book Thirteen: Means of Taking Forts
28. Book Fourteen: Concerning Secret Practices
29. Book Fifteen: Method of the Science
30. Conclusion |
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| An exhaustive Kautilyan administrative system, incorporating multi-dimensional parameters of police, defence, espionage, counter-espionage, punishments, judicial process -- both criminal and civil, finance, economy, trade, intelligence, and the entire gamut of home and foreign affairs, including the executive machinery, inter alia, the king -- ruler of the state, and its subject, and the methods of ensuring their sustained beneficence, well-being and protection have been discussed in this book. The prevalent abhorable conduct of public servants and their despicable and disparaging attitude and apathy towards public interest and their lawful needs, and ways of keeping them in check are not very much different from those expressed by Kautilya in this flower of Indian Political Thought -- the Arthasastra in the antiquity of 330 B.C. Its essential aim is the welfare of the subjects together with the advancement of the state. Its teaching, which is based on the very realities, cannot be rendered superfluous in view of the existing and unavoidable rivalry and the struggle for supremacy between nations. Contrarily, it has crowned perennial and sublime glory on this treatise and its progenitor KAUTILYA, the GREAT. |
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