Question

Kautilya (also known as Vishnugupta and Chanakya) is the author of Arthashastra which has been compared with _____.

• A. Plato's State
• B. Machiavelli's Prince
• C. Karl Marx's Das Kapital
• D. Hitler's Mein Kampf

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Machiavelli's Prince

The Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy, written in Sanskrit. Kautilya’s Arthashastra is a prescriptive text that lays out rules and norms for successfully running a state and conducting international relations similar to Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Prince".