The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t4.1

c11.s1.t4.1

In order to vindicate the Indian tradition that the *Arthaśāstra* is the work of Kauṭalya, the "famous minister of Chandragupta," Hermann Jacobi read a paper entitled *Ueber die Echtheit des Kauṭilīya* at the Königliche Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften (K.P.A.W.), Berlin, in 1912 (July 18).¹