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The Arthashastra

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Importance of Mining in India

In 320, india's first really serious empire arises. This is going to basically inspire the development of the text. There are states coming to coalesce with urbanized centres in them. Cities and courts which encourage kind of intellectual development. I was amazed that they were getting silk from china and a coral from other parts of the world.

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