The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t1.3

c11.s1.t1.3

The *Kauṭalīya Arthaśāstra* was described by Smith as "Chāṇakya's Art of Government." It was also treated as a work on the "principles and methods of government in ancient India." He considered many of the rules to be puerile or merely theoretical." "On the whole," the document was appraised as "evidently" a "presentation of the facts of actual practice made in the peculiar literary form affected by the Hindu writers of text-books."