Public Administration in Ancient India c16.28

c16.28

¹ But Kautilya adds: "He should not make such demands of persons who cultivate soils of a middling or inferior quality, nor of those who are of great assistance to the State in the construction of forts, irrigation works, trade routes, colonisation of waste lands, exploitation of mines, preservation of forests, nor of border tribes, nor of those who had no means of subsistence." Bk. V. ch. 2. Also, Sukranīti, IV. 2, 10.