India has been famous all the world over for contribution she has made to the world's to wealth of literature and philosophy;but, it remains to be shown that even in the field of political speculation our ancients were not without their own ideas of internal organisation and inter-state intercourse. The average European student of social thought has heard of the great Manu-the Solon of ancient Hindu polity; but it is only orientalists will have heard of the name of Kautilya and his Arthasastra which occupies a position in Hindu political speculation comparable only to the "Republic" of Plato and the "Politics" of Aristotle in classical antiquity, and which in point of acuteness and clear grasp of facts is matched perhaps only by "The Prince" of Machiavelli.The Arthasastra presents the same baffling variety and complexly which characterise all early attempts at scientific speculation. Like the Darsanas which,from a modern point of view, combine a mixture of curious speculation on Physics ,Psychology, Logic, Ethics and Metaphysics, the Arthasastra is a sustained effort at treating in an exhaustive if not thoroughly systematic manner a variety of social,economic and political problem in the light of antecedent historical evolution and contemporary political and inter-state organisation. In stating his problems and attempting their solution Kautilya shows a measure of
ഈ താൾ വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാല ഡിജിറ്റൈസേഷൻ മത്സരം 2014-ന്റെ ഭാഗമായി സ്കൂൾ ഐടി ക്ലബ്ബിലെ വിദ്യാർഥികൾ നിർമ്മിച്ചതാണ്.
