thus, history in this definition takes on the meaning more akin to the sense of historiography and is perhaps even more eclectic and appears to indicate a superset of political science and history as we use them today. we feel vindicated therefore in calling our forthcoming conference a conference on indian history ( http://www.india-forum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2088), since we seem to ascribe the same broad meaning that kautilya did 3 millennia ago.