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Kautilya

state-capacity strategist who joins taxation, agriculture, espionage, diplomacy, welfare, infrastructure, and coercion… · composition traditions spanning roughly the late first millennium BCE to early first millennium CE

Kautilya is represented within composition traditions spanning roughly the late first millennium BCE to early first millennium CE and South Asian statecraft traditions associated with the Arthashastra. Historicity classification: traditional authorial identity; text, date, and relation to Chanakya are contested.

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