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Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Charles Allen
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:480
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128
Category/GenreAsian and Middle Eastern history
ISBN/Barcode 9780349122380
ClassificationsDewey:934.045092
Audience
General
Illustrations Integrated: 30, int b/w photos

Publishing Details

Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Abacus
Publication Date 3 January 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Charles Allen is the author of a number of bestselling books about Indian and the colonial experience elsewhere. A traveller, historian and master storyteller he is one of the great chroniclers of India.