The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.10

c11.s1.10

It is with the publication of R. Shamasastry's paper on "Chāṇakya's Land and Revenue Policy (fourth century B.C.)" in the *Indian Antiquary* (Bombay) of January 1905 (pp. 5-6) that modern scholarship began to take interest in the politics, economics and sociology of Kauṭalya. In the introduction to that paper Shamasastry described the *Arthaśāstra* as the "science of economics" and pointed out that the author was "known by the name Kauṭalya." And he observed as follows :