Ashoka
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Indias 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 ashokas bold experiment ended in tragedy and he was forgotten for almost two thousand yearsin 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 indias 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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