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

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Plato's State

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Machiavelli's Prince

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Karl Marx's Das Kapital

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Hitler's Mein Kampf

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Solution

The correct option is A 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".

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