Ashoka
Subtitle: the search for India's lost emperor
Publisher: Overlook Press; Abrams Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781468300710
Table of contents: title: The king without sorrow; title: The breaking of idols; title: The golden column of Firoz Shah; title: Objects of enquiry; title: Enter Alexander; title: Furious Orientalists; title: The long shadow of Horace Hayman Wilson; title: Prinsep's Ghat; title: Thus spake King Piyadasi; title: Brian Hodgson's gift; title: Records of the Western regions; title: Alexander Cunningham the Great; title: Sir Alexander in excelsis; title: Corpus inscriptionum indicarum; title: India after Cunningham; title: Ashoka in the twentieth century; title: The rise and fall of Ashokadharma; title: Appendix. The Rock and Pillar Edicts