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<p>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 ext
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nayanjot Lahiri
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674057777
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (45 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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