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Ashoka in Ancient India
Nayanjot Lahiri
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Hardback. 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." Num Pages: 406 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDA; BGH; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 218 x 32. Weight in Grams: 644.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
604g
Number of Pages
406
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674057777
SKU
V9780674057777
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99-15
About Nayanjot Lahiri
Nayanjot Lahiri is Professor of History at the University of Delhi.
Reviews for Ashoka in Ancient India
Lahiri has firmly grounded the Ashoka of legend and inscriptions with a novel kind of detail and deliberation, spelling out the connections and implications, combining solid historical analysis with fresh interpretation.
Upinder Singh, University of Delhi Fascinating.
Chandrahas Choudhury Wall Street Journal (08/20/2015) Many biographies have been published on Ashoka, the greatest king of India, but this biography is different, and perhaps the best written on the extraordinary king.
R. N. Sharma Choice (01/01/2016) Richly thoughtful... The result of all this careful, well-presented thought and research is what is certainly the best biography of Ashoka the Great ever written in English.
Steve Donoghue Open Letters Monthly (08/01/2015) [Lahiri's] idiosyncratic book combines legends, archaeology, and even personal information shrewdly teased out of the edicts to craft an arresting profile.
Brian Bethune Maclean's (09/14/2015) Where Lahiri really scores is in the field of Ashokan archaeology, where she brings together all the work that has been undertaken in the years since 1997...These advances have all been woven seamlessly into Lahiri's narrative, so as to give the clearest chronology yet assembled of the life of Ashoka and what Lahiri calls 'his trajectory as a communicator' and his 'intellectual evolution, ' most notably the quite extraordinary change of heart that followed Ashoka's conquest of Kalinga and how this transformed his concept of kingship.
Charles Allen Literary Review (09/01/2015) Lahiri [presents] an accessible and engaging biography of the emperor in his time that navigates the complex terrain of available evidence...Lahiri has produced what is probably the best biography of As oka to date...Lahiri has produced a uniquely accessible volume that draws readers into the landscapes of Mauryan India and guides them through a rich encounter with the As oka of edict and legend.
Mark McClish Indian Economic and Social History Review (04/01/2017) Many biographies of Emperor As oka (third c. B.C.E.) have been written over the past century or so, but Lahiri's is perhaps the most gripping...Lahiri's is, indeed, a very engaging biography, probably the best I have read.
(01/01/2017)
Upinder Singh, University of Delhi Fascinating.
Chandrahas Choudhury Wall Street Journal (08/20/2015) Many biographies have been published on Ashoka, the greatest king of India, but this biography is different, and perhaps the best written on the extraordinary king.
R. N. Sharma Choice (01/01/2016) Richly thoughtful... The result of all this careful, well-presented thought and research is what is certainly the best biography of Ashoka the Great ever written in English.
Steve Donoghue Open Letters Monthly (08/01/2015) [Lahiri's] idiosyncratic book combines legends, archaeology, and even personal information shrewdly teased out of the edicts to craft an arresting profile.
Brian Bethune Maclean's (09/14/2015) Where Lahiri really scores is in the field of Ashokan archaeology, where she brings together all the work that has been undertaken in the years since 1997...These advances have all been woven seamlessly into Lahiri's narrative, so as to give the clearest chronology yet assembled of the life of Ashoka and what Lahiri calls 'his trajectory as a communicator' and his 'intellectual evolution, ' most notably the quite extraordinary change of heart that followed Ashoka's conquest of Kalinga and how this transformed his concept of kingship.
Charles Allen Literary Review (09/01/2015) Lahiri [presents] an accessible and engaging biography of the emperor in his time that navigates the complex terrain of available evidence...Lahiri has produced what is probably the best biography of As oka to date...Lahiri has produced a uniquely accessible volume that draws readers into the landscapes of Mauryan India and guides them through a rich encounter with the As oka of edict and legend.
Mark McClish Indian Economic and Social History Review (04/01/2017) Many biographies of Emperor As oka (third c. B.C.E.) have been written over the past century or so, but Lahiri's is perhaps the most gripping...Lahiri's is, indeed, a very engaging biography, probably the best I have read.
(01/01/2017)