Chanakya Neeti is a book based on Chanakya, an Indian theorist, teacher, philosopher, economist and a noble mentor to the Mauryan emperors between 350 -275 BC. The book portrays about his ideologies and ideas in diverse situations, which are pertinent even to today’s’ times. People follow his ideas to escape from the web of several evils to lead a happy and peaceful life. Chanakya was also known as Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta. He was prominent lecturer at the ancient Takshashila University. He was an expert of economics and political science. Besides teaching, he also advised the Mauryan kings, Chandragupta and his son Bindusara. Chanakya played a crucial role in the establishment and expansion of the Mauryan Empire.

In this book, the author tells about Arthashastra, the ancient thesis about Indian Polity. The book focuses on Chanakya’s detailed theories. He wrote his discoveries as to the manner people used to live their lives in ancient India. The book explains the behaviours and patterns a person should follow with different people in life.

This book was published in 2002 and is available in paperback form. It comprises of Neeti Sutras in Sanskrit, which are in concise form, but are very impressive. Their translation is done in English and a bit is explained in laymen’s terms too.

It is available online on Amazon India.

About the author:

B.K. Chaturvedi is an Indian Civil Servant. He is also former Cabinet Secretary, Government of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his involvement in the field of civil services, in 2010. He belongs to the 1966 IAS batch.

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a must read for every body you will come know the rahaasya of life and how to tackle people, a management guru , a vise teacher , a great philosopher and a king maker hats off to you.he has written on every possible cases of his time which are still applicable today . --meet savkar Oct 12, 2011

This book is a good collection of sloka's. Most of them are directed to social life, the way a person should behave an act in society, family, responsibility, karma. --Sunil Kumar Behera Oct 13, 2011

Beautiful!! A key to transform a person into an ideal and strategic minded person. Translations are done in a nice manner and when u read it , you relax, you savour the beauty of its words. Chanakya's sutras are the best part of this book. It will turn out your senses and you will start to know why so many authors write books on his tactics!! in short : A must buy!!!!! --Aditya Vikram Dembla Mar 1, 2013

About the Author

About the Author: B. K. Chaturvedi is a famous Indian author, who is also a journalist and translator. His works are mainly based on Hindu Gods and saints. He also focusses on historically famous Indian people. Chaturvedi's works are published both in English and Hindi. He mostly studied in Bangalore and Allahabad. Apart from this book, Chaturvedi has authored Linga Purana, Kautilya's Arthashastra and A Complete Guide To Numerology. He has also written for some programmes on TV and radio.