Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c32.s1.1

c32.s1.1

Recently the controversy about the date of this work has revived. Dr. Jolly (*Arthaśāstra of Kautilya*, Lahore, 1923, Intro. pp. 1—47) has pronounced the work to be a piece of forgery of about the 3rd century A.C. (pp. 43, 47): 'we might abide by the 3rd century as the probable date of the A.,' 'the real author was a theoretician' and Kauṭilya himself a 'fabulous minister' (p. 47).