Ancient Indian Law (Kautilya and Contemporaries)

Ancient Indian Law (Kautilya and Contemporaries) gathers the ancient and classical figures of the Indian legal and statecraft tradition represented in this subcategory, above all Kautilya, the author traditionally credited with the Arthashastra, the classical Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and law. This tradition developed independently of the Mesopotamian, Greek and Roman legal traditions grouped elsewhere in this subcategory and remains a primary source for the history of law and governance on the Indian subcontinent.