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Kautilya

Political and economic thinker; minister

What they did

The Arthashastra sets out revenue and taxation, price and market regulation, weights and measures, state accounts and audit, labour contracts, public works and the administration of trade routes.

The text

Arthashastra

When

Date disputed; the received text shows later redaction · disputed · disputed
Authorship and dating are debated; the surviving text is compiled

Where

Unknown or disputed.

Where it maps in modern education

Economics, commerce and business studies · CBSE · ICSE · IGCSE · IB — Arthashastra. Taxation and revenue, price and market regulation, weights and measures, trade routes and tariffs, public works, accounts and audit, labour contracts.

Management, public administration and economics — Arthashastra and Rajaniti. Organisation and delegation, audit and anti-corruption, revenue policy, logistics, crisis and famine administration, intelligence.

Evidence: traditionally attributed · no modern scholarly reference recorded yet.