Ashoka : the search for India's lost emperor / Charles Allen

By:

Allen, Charles

Language: Eng Publication details: Little, Brown Book Group, 2013. London :Description: xix, 460 pISBN:

9780349122380

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DDC classification:

934.045092 ALL-A

Summary: Ashoka Maurya or Ashoka the Great as he was later known, holds a special place in the history of India. Through his third century BCE quest to govern the Indian subcontinent by moral force alone, Ashoka transformed Buddhism from a minor sect into a major world religion. His bold experiment ended in tragedy, and in the tumult that followed the historical record was cleansed so effectively that his name was largely forgotten for almost two thousand years.

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Ashoka Maurya or Ashoka the Great as he was later known, holds a special place in the history of India. Through his third century BCE quest to govern the Indian subcontinent by moral force alone, Ashoka transformed Buddhism from a minor sect into a major world religion. His bold experiment ended in tragedy, and in the tumult that followed the historical record was cleansed so effectively that his name was largely forgotten for almost two thousand years.

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