The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.1

c11.s1.1

The first edition of the present work was prepared and published (1910-14) when the Kauṭalya question appeared to be rather simple. But today in 1936, i.e., over thirty years since the first notice of the *Arthaśāstra* in 1905 the question is not yet closed. As the subject is likely to be no less important in the present century than were, say, the Plato question and the *Mahābhārata* question in the last the principal problems and viewpoints bearing on the subject are being dealt with chronologically in the following sections. A certain amount of repetition is unfortunately inevitable. My own position is being indicated not only sometimes in connection with those of others but also separately as the occasions arise.¹