Ashoka. The Search For India's Lost Emperor

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Little, Brown
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 460 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on page edges). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The only exception are that the last few pages have some light creases.

Publishers Description: 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 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 Indias ancient history itself. The Lost Emperor tells the story of the man who was arguably the greatest ruler India has ever known.

ISBN: 9781408701966