Articles on Kautilya Machiavelli Comparison
Prof. Benoy Kumar Sarkar and the “New Machiavelli”
By Kalidas Nag · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1926
Kalidas Nag’s essay critiques and contextualizes Benoy Kumar Sarkar’s interpretation of Machiavellian political thought. Sarkar, a prolific Indian sociologist, sought to reinterpret the ideas of Niccolò Machiavelli through an Indian lens and to apply them to…
Hindu Politics in Italian
By Benoy Kumar Sarkar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1926
R. Shamasastry’s *Evolution of Indian Polity* (1920) examines Hindu political thought, drawing from Vedic, medieval, and modern texts, but faces criticism for speculative interpretations and lack of rigorous historical analysis. The work suggests…
Hindu Politics in Italian
By Haridas Mitra · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1925
Italian Indologists have long engaged with India’s social and political thought, and this survey introduces several of their works. Salvatore Cognetti de Martiis’ ‘Socialismo Antico’ compares economic systems across ancient cultures and sees in the Viṣṇu…