The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s9.32
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s9.32
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30. Herein, it would seem, lies the essential difference with Machiavelli, who decisively breaks away from the concept of politics as part and parcel of the scholastic *philosophia ethica* (or *moralis*). Kauṭilya’s sobriquet “Indian Machiavelli” is all too glib.