num_pages: 374
description: First published in 1961, this classic work is based largely on the edicts of Asoka, whose policies are analyzed against the background of Mauryan civilization during the third and fourth centuries B.C. The present edition has been thoroughly revised with a new afterword and archaeological sitemap.
language: English
title: Aśoka and the Decline of the Mauryas: With a new afterword, bibliography and index
titlecomplete: Aśoka and the Decline of the Mauryas: With a new afterword, bibliography and index (Oxford India Paperbacks)
genres: History, Indian Literature, Buddhism, India, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 332
publisher: Oxford University Press