<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=268456.msg13302654#msg13302654">Quote from: Ron Don Volante on 26-06-2017, 13:07:42</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Great (and totally irrelevant) story about Machiavelli. Being of Indian descent I learned lots of stuff that most of my peers didn't and way back as an undergrad, where I was studying Political Science, among other things, my favorite professor had assigned The Prince, beginning about a month or two worth of analysis during which time I brought up Chankya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanakya) and described his (legendary) history and his work which was very similar to The Prince. That led to this great exchange:<br/><br/>Prof: "So, this Chankya sounds like the Indian Machiavelli."<br/>Me: "Well, he was around about two thousand years <em>before</em> Machiavelli, so I think it would be better to call Machiavelli the Italian Chankya." <br/><br/>That got a big laugh and I've been a devoted student of both ever since. Nothing to do with anything but I just thought I'd share. :P<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Allow me - while 'nothing to do with anything', it actually has everything to do with the themes of my research. I'll take a look - I honestly didn't know about Chankya - being brazilian and of italian descent myself, I have been mostly in contact with western political theory and philosophy.<br/><br/>Thanks for the info, I'll sure look into it!