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Chanakya
Ancient Indian teacher and strategist who authored the foundational manual on political economy
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 375 BCE
- Died
- 283 BCE
- Place of birth
- Taxila
- Place of death
- Patna
- Sex or gender
- male
- Genre
- treatise
- Main subject
- military strategy
- Occupation
- writer, philosopher, economist, teacher, astrologer, adviser, politician
- Position held
- professor
- Religion
- Hinduism
- birth name
- कौटिल्य, विष्णुगुप्त
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- floruit
- 4th century BCE
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Sanskrit
- nickname
- Indian Machiavelli
- notable work
- Arthashastra
- student
- Chandragupta Maurya, Bindusara
- topic's main category
- Category:Chanakya
- writing language
- Sanskrit
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