I dunno, how come information on the Art of War is freely available on the internet, but ancient and medieval Indian texts are up for sale, and all you get is a little book review.

If anyone has good information, I want to know of the two following Indian texts:
1) Arthashastra
2) Fatawa-i-Jahandari

I've never heard of the other one, but here's the Arthashastra:

http://projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu/Docs/history/primarydocs/Arthashastra/BookII.htm

The Arthashastra isn't really a Art of War, its an Art of Governance, which includes warfare in its content. Its now being looked into by Indian officiaks to discover the secrets behind the success of the mighty Mauryan Empire. All this in 480 BC, another grand achievement

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The link works now...

Does anyone have info o the other book mentioned by Bharat?

Here is the entire Arthashastra (all books):

http://projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu/Docs/history/primarydocs/Arthashastra/

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Go look at the thread about Indian Islam and Caste I had posted earlier on the Historical Forum, should be somewhere on the list towards the middle or bottom now. The Fatawa-i-Jahandari is basically the same as Arthashastra, it divides Indians into two castes: ashraf and something else, and tries to make a sustainable functional nation-state out of that.

jahan in persian means world

GreatLur Wrote:

"jahan in persian means world"


REALLY???

Nobody EVER would have guessed THAT one!!!