Kautilya — Political and economic thinker; minister
Date disputed; the received text shows later redaction · disputed · disputed
Authorship and dating are debated; the surviving text is compiled
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Economics, commerce and business studies · CBSE · ICSE · IGCSE · IB — Taxation and revenue, price and market regulation, weights and measures, trade routes and tariffs, public works, accounts and audit, labour contracts.
Political science, civics and law · CBSE · ICSE · IGCSE · IB — The state and its organs, duties of a ruler, courts and procedure, evidence, punishment, treaties and diplomacy.
Management, public administration and economics — Organisation and delegation, audit and anti-corruption, revenue policy, logistics, crisis and famine administration, intelligence.
Evidence: traditionally attributed · no modern scholarly reference recorded yet.