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Ashoka in Ancient India / Nayanjot Lahiri.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lahiri, Nayanjot, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aśoka, King of Magadha, active 259 B.C.
- Aśoka.
- India--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- India.
- India--History--Maurya dynasty, ca. 322 B.C.-ca. 185 B.C.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the third century BCE Ashoka ruled in South Asia and Afghanistan, and came to be seen 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 an emperor whose legacy extends far beyond the bounds of his lifetime and dominion.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude
- 1. An Apocryphal Early Life
- 2. Pataliputra and the Prince
- 3. Mauryan Taxila
- 4. Affairs of the Heart and State
- 5. The End and the Beginning
- 6. The Emperor’s Voice
- 7. Extending the Arc of Communication to Afghanistan
- 8. An Expansive Imperial Articulation
- 9. The Message in the Landscape
- 10. Building Beliefs into Edifices
- 11. An Ageing Emperor’s Interventions
- 12 Of Wifely Woes and the Emperor’s Death
- Epilogue: The Emperor’s Afterlife
- Appendix: The Inscriptions of Ashoka
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Mrz 2018)
- ISBN:
- 9780674915251
- 0674915259
- 9780674915237
- 0674915232
- OCLC:
- 1024016472
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