Hindu Politics in Italian

According to this way of thinking the struggle beween the old and the new aristocracies is not a special phenomenon of the economic history of the Phoenicians but a universal fact of acient 'civilization in the old and the new worlds. [...] And the unification of Italy was quickened not so much by the idealism of Mazzini as by the practical activities of Cavour and Garibaldi." "For the practical life of India Kautilya is the spokesman as for Greece Thucydides." Such is the philosophy pervading Bottazzi4 comparative study of Hindu and Greek thought in the light of Italian. [...] Is there anybody to deny that the doctrines of the will of the people and of a compronzesso based on the exchange of protection and taxes are to be found in the Sanskrit text ? B. is quite right in his contentions so far as he goes.- Ghoshal objects to the term "social contract" in the pretent intance. [...] It is rather the governments of piccoli Stati (little states) that one is said to read of in the Arthah7stra and the picture is alleged to be that of the political conditions of India before and after the "glorious parenthesis" of the empire of the Mauryas. [...] In that case one might still believe that wherever and to the extent that the "relativity" of political theory to political institutions is to be admitted the authors of the Kautilya cycle were in touch with the men who ran the foreign office finance department general staff and other Karatasthanas (Bureaus) of the Maurya empire and that the institutional experience embodied in the Arthagastr