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"Your neighbour is your natural enemy and the neighbour's neighbour is your friend" this was the basic thought behind Kautilya's Mandala theory . Kautilya gave this theor y for foreign relations and diplomacy.

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According to this theory Foreign rulers are classified into four groups.

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Ari (Enemies), Mitra(Friends), Madhyama(Mediators) a nd Udasina(Neutrals). Inimical and friendly rulers are divided into into two kinds natural and artificial. According to Kautilya the king and his immediate neighbours are the natural enemies to each other. A king who attempted to give trouble to another king without reasonable cause was an artificial enemy of that king. The best kind of friend, according to kautilya, who was constant, noble, straight forward and whose friendship is inherited from father or

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grandfather. A ruler whose friendship was courted forthe sake of protection of lifeand property was the artificial friend. The ruler whose territory was situated close to that of a king and his wicked enemy and who was ca pable of helping both the kings or of resisting either of them,according to Kautilya was a Mediator and the ruler whose territory was situated between the territories of two rival kings and who was powerful enough to help or resist either of them or a mediating king was Neutral. The distinction between Neutral and Mediators are not very clear but I thing the king who remained passive in regard to both the parties are Neutral while Madhyama king was the one who exerted his influence to bring reconciliation.

The neighbouring king belong to either of four classes, rearward enemy (parshnigraha), rearward friend (akaranda), ally of a rearward enemy (parshnigrahasana), ally of a rearward friend (akarandasara). According to Kautilya, a powerful king should always try to make himself center (nabhi) of the circle(mandala). Depending on the situation the king should adopt any of the following policies, namely, peace (sandhi), war(vigraha), neutrality (asana), preparedness for war(yana), alliance(samsraya) and double dealing (dvaidhibhava).

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According to Kautilya there are four ways you can achieve the above policies, namely, conciliation (sama), making of gift (dana), showing of dissension (bheda), punishment (danda). you must be heard of this.


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It may be quite confusing so lets take a note from this theory.

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