"Economics in Arthasastra" is an edited volume of about 20 articles dealing with the economic content of Arthasastra by Kautilya written more than two thousand years ago in India. This volume has been prepared with a specific objective o bring into limelight the fact that economics as a subject was evolved in India much earlier than the present western ideas on economic thinking. It will also explode the myth that quite a few western addicted persons ...
The study of ancient Indian economic ideas is likely to endow us with a deeper insight into our culture and tradition and the inherent national characteristics. Many scholars, particularly during the first half of the twentieth century, attempted to make an objective and unbiased evaluation of ancient Indian economic ideas explicitly or implicitly contained in ancient Indian writings, particularly in Vedas, Arthasastra, Ramayana and Mahabharata, Manusmriti, ...