• ISBN13: 9788171567331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Economics
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: July 22, 2018
• Pages: 488
• Original Price: INR 1195.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 600 grams

An exhaustive Kautilyan administrative system, incorporating multi-dimensional parameters of police, defence, espionage, counter-espionage, punishments, judicial process — both criminal and civil, finance, economy, trade, intelligence, and the entire gamut of home and foreign affairs, including the executive machinery, inter alia, the king — ruler of the state, and its subject, and the methods of ensuring their sustained beneficence, well-being and protection have been discussed in this book. The prevalent abhorable conduct of public servants and their despicable and disparaging attitude and apathy towards public interest and their lawful needs, and ways of keeping them in check are not very much different from those expressed by Kautilya in this flower of Indian Political Thought — the Arthasastra in the antiquity of 330 B.C. Its essential aim is the welfare of the subjects together with the advancement of the state. Its teaching, which is based on the very realities, cannot be rendered superfluous in view of the existing and unavoidable rivalry and the struggle for supremacy between nations. Contrarily, it has crowned perennial and sublime glory on this treatise and its progenitor KAUTILYA, the GREAT.

The author, M.B. Chande after his college education joined the Police Service in the erstwhile State of Madhya Pradesh; and during the Reorganization of States, he was inducted to Maharashtra Police Service, from which he retired in 1978, as Assistant Commissioner of Police. During his distinctive Police Service of 39 years, he had served in all the branches of the Police Department, both of the State and Central, including the security of V.V.I.Ps. He was on the editorial staff of the Indian Police Journal. He has authored, Shree Ram Janma Bhoomi in 1992; A Concise Encyclopaedia of Indian History in 1995; The Police in India in 1996; The Betrayal of Indian Democracy in 1999 and the present book Kautilyan Arthasastra.

• 1. Arthasastra : Its Scope and Origin
• 2. The Relation of Arthasastra to Dharmasastra
• 3. The Content, Form and Source of Kautilya Arthasastra
• 4. The Author, Date of Arthasastra
• 5. The State in Arthasastra
• 6. Society and Social Life
• 7. State Economy
• 8. State Administration
• 9. Law and Administration of Justice
• 10. Internal Security
• 11. Defence and External Affairs
• 12. Introduction to English Translation
• 13. Book One : Concerning Topic of Training

• 14. Book Two (Part One): The Activities of the Heads of Departments

• 15. Book Two (Part Two): The Activities of the Heads of Departments (Contd.)

• 16. Book Two (Part Three): The Activities of the Heads of Departments (Concluded)

• 17. Book Three : Concerning Judges
• 18. Book Four : The Suppression of Criminals
• 19. Book Five : Secret Conduct
• 20. Book Six : Circle of Kings as the Basis
• 21. Book Seven : The Six Measures of Foreign Policy
• 22. Book Eight: Concerning the Topic of Calamities
• 23. Book Nine : The Activity of the King about to March
• 24. Book Ten : Concerning War
• 25. Book Eleven : Policy Towards Oligarchies
• 26. Book Twelve : Concerning the Weaker King
• 27. Book Thirteen : Means of Taking Forts
• 28. Book Fourteen : Concerning Secret Practices
• 29. Book Fifteen : Method of the Science
• 30. Conclusion
• Appendix ‘A’ : Names of Localities, Mountains and Rivers etc. During Kautilyan Period and their Present Identification
• Bibliography
• Index of Principal Topics