Kautilya
Kautilya Kautilya, also called Chanakya or Vishnugupta (flourished 300 BCE), Hindu statesman and philosopher who wrote a classic treatise on polity, Artha-shastra (“The Science of Material Gain”), a compilation of virtually everything that had been written in India up to his time regarding artha (property, economics, or material success). Chanakya’s birthplace is a matter of […]