Multiple choice

Who among the following had studied and discovered the Manuscript of Kautilya's Arthashastra for the first time?

  1. K.A.N.Sastry

  2. B.K Thapar

  3. R.Shama Sastri

  4. James Fergusson

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C Correct answer
Explanation

R. Shama Sastri was the scholar who discovered, studied, and edited the Arthashastra manuscript in 1905-1909. The ancient text had been lost for centuries and was rediscovered in the form of a palm-leaf manuscript in Kerala. Shama Sastri's work brought Kautilya's treatise on statecraft back to modern scholarship.