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Ideas in Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2019

Mark McClish
Mark McClish
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Northwestern University, Illinois
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The History of the Arthasastra
Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India
 , pp. 275 - 288
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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