The Arthasastra is the foundational text of Indic political thought
and ancient India's most important treatise on statecraft and
governance. It is traditionally believed that politics in ancient
India was ruled by religion; that kings strove to fulfil their
sacred duty; and that sovereignty was circumscribed by the sacred
law of dharma. Mark McClish's systematic and thorough evaluation of
the Arthasastra's early history shows that these ideas only came to
prominence in the statecraft tradition late in the classical
period. With a thorough chronological exploration, he demonstrates
that the text originally espoused a political philosophy
characterized by empiricism and pragmatism, ignoring the mandate of
dharma altogether. The political theology of dharma was
incorporated when the text was redacted in the late classical
period, which obscured the existence of an independent political
tradition in ancient India altogether and reinforced the erroneous
notion that ancient India was ruled by religion, not politics.
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