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Chanakya described different interest rates for different...

2027-02-23

India had formal compound interest documented in the Arthashastra — in 300 BCE. Chanakya described different interest rates for different risk categories, compound interest calculations, and detailed lending regulations — 2,300 years before modern banking was conceived.

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