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Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor by Charles Allen (Paperback, 2013)

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These antiquarians, archaeologists, and epigraphists played a crucial role in recovering India's ancient history. For those intrigued by a three-hundred-year detective trail, this book is a must-read.

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India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone he turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion, and set up a new yardstick for government. But Ashoka's bold experiment ended in tragedy and he was forgotten for almost two thousand years. In this beautifully written, multi-layered journey Charles Allen describes how fragments of the Ashokan story were gradually discovered, pieced together by a variety of British Orientalists: antiquarians, archaeologists and epigraphists. In doing so, they did much to recover India's ancient history itself. The Lost Emperor tells the story of the man who was arguably the greatest ruler India has ever known.

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PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group

ISBN-139780349122380

eBay Product ID (ePID)138684537

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Book TitleAshoka: the Search for India's Lost Emperor

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

TopicHistory

GenreBiographies & True Stories

TypeTextbook

AuthorCharles Allen

FormatPaperback

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Item Height198 mm

Item Weight380 g

Item Width128 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Title_AuthorCharles Allen

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by stumar_54
19 Aug, 2021
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For anyone interested in the subject this is a wonderful find. I'm no expert, but found it easy to read, and it certainly added to my knowledge of Ashoka AND to India's history in general.
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