Ashoka in Ancient India /Nayanjot Lahiri
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TextPublisher number: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD. | ;7/22,Anasri Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002Publication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 2015Description: xix, 385 pages ;23 cmISBN: 9788178244914Subject(s): HistoryGenre/Form: Kings and rulersDDC classification: 934.045092 LAH | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 934.04 HAB Mauryan India | 934.04 HAB Mauryan India | 934.040924 BHA Asoka, | 934.045092 LAH Ashoka in Ancient India | 934.045092 OLI Reimagining Aśoka | 934.045092 OLI Reimagining Aśoka | 934.05 ARC Nagarjunakonda |
An apocryphal early life --
Pataliputra and the prince --
Mauryan Taxila --
Affairs of the heart and state --
The end and the beginning --
The emperor's voice --
Extending the arc of communication to Afghanistan --
An expansive imperial articulation --
The message in the landscape --
Building beliefs into edifices --
An ageing emperor's interventions --
Of wifely woes and the emperor's death --
Epilogue: The emperor's afterlife --
In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subcontinent, and future generations of Asians came to see him as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the threads of Ashoka's life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid biography of this extraordinary Indian emperor and deepens our understanding of a legacy that extends beyond the bounds of his lifetime and dominion.
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