Author: Mohan Mishra
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 218
ISBN/UPC (if available): 812910475X
Description
Likened to Machiavelli by political theorists, Chanakya wrote the Arthashastra almost two thousand years before Niccolo Machiavelli was born. Written in Sanskrit, the Arthashastra remains unique in all of Indian literature because of its unabashed advocacy of realpolitik. The Arthashastra does not leave any doubts about its ends: according to Chanakya, a ruler should use any means to attain his goal and his actions required no moral sanction.
The only problems discussed in the Arthashastra are of the most practical kind. It was with Chankaya as his mentor, that Chandragupta Maurya came to rule much of India. In Building an Empire: Chanakya Revisited, Dr Mohan Mishra looks at this definitive book on the science and art of statecraft, the teachings of which, in many ways, are still relevant today.
Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Chanakya
Chanakya’s Individual
BUILDING A STATE
CONSTITUENS OF THE STATE
King
Prince
Ministers
Country
Forts
Treasury
Army
RUNNING A STATE
Bureacracy
Law & Judiciary
Crime
Secret Service
Calamities
BUILDING AN EMPIRE
Foreign Affairs
War and Peace
King about to March
Weaker King
End Game
FURTHER READING
INDEX