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The Arthashastra: Luxury Collectible Edition

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The Arthashastra is an extraordinarily detailed manual on statecraft, governance, and the art of living, written by one of classical India’s greatest thinkers, Kautilya—also known as Chanakya or Vishnugupta. Composed no later than around 150 CE (though its precise date remains debated), the Arthashastra stands as the most comprehensive treatise on statecraft from the ancient world.

Tradition holds that Kautilya was either a Brahmin from Kerala or from northern India. What is certain is his p...