Name: Ashoka Without the Legends: What the Evidence Actually Says About India's First Empire (South Asia Before the Sultanates)
SKU: 68931258
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Author: Haasan, I. T.
ISBN: 9798194666188

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Ashoka Without the Legends: What the Evidence Actually Says About India's First Empire (South Asia Before the Sultanates)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Independently published

Author

Haasan, I. T.

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9798194666188

Ashoka Without the Legends: What the Evidence Actually Says About India's First Empire (South Asia Before the Sultanates)

Haasan, I. T. (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

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Synopsis "Ashoka Without the Legends: What the Evidence Actually Says About India's First Empire (South Asia Before the Sultanates)"

Ashoka converted to Buddhism in horror at the slaughter of Kalinga. Chandragupta was schooled by the strategist Chanakya, whose Arthashastra was the working handbook of the Mauryan state. The Mauryas governed a vast, uniformly administered empire from Pataliputra. Each of those familiar sentences runs ahead of the evidence. This is a short, careful history of the first dynasty to bind much of South Asia into a single political order, and of the point at which what we can actually show gives way to what later generations chose to remember. Every claim carries its evidence grade. Seven maps refuse to draw a frontier the sources do not support. A chapter-by-chapter note on sources shows you exactly where to check. What survives is stranger, thinner and more interesting than the story we tell. Volume I of South Asia Before the Sultanates, a series on the kingdoms and empires that shaped the subcontinent before the sultanate era.