INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT INDIA

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Kautilya (also known as Vishnugupta and Chanakya) is the author of Arthasastra Which has been compared with
A
Plato’s State
B
Machiavelli’s Prince
C
Karl Marx’s Das Kapital
D
Hitler’s Mein Kampf
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Kautilya’s Arthashastra is a prescriptive text that lays out rules and norms for successfully running a state and conducting international relations similar to Niccolò Machiavelli’s “The Prince".

Detailed explanation-2: -Kautilya’s Arthashastra is a text that gives out meaningful and logical rules and norms for efficiently and successfully running a state and conducting international relations similar to Niccolò Machiavelli’s “The Prince".

Detailed explanation-3: -Kautilya was an academician at Taxila University and later the Prime Minister of the Mauryan Empire. He is referred to as the Indian Machiavelli as a result of his undisputed and shrewd techniques and policies, which mirror a “realist” approach to politics, diplomacy and warfare.

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