Title: Ashoka in Ancient India
Description: In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subcontinent, and future generations of Asians came to see him 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 this extraordinary Indian emperor and deepens our understanding of a legacy that extends beyond the bounds of his lifetime and dominion.
Subjects: Kings and rulers, Biography, History, Asoka, king of magadha, active 259 b.c., India, kings and rulers, India, biography, India, history
Places: India
People: Aśoka King of Magadha (active 259 B.C)
Time periods: Maurya dynasty, ca. 322 B.C.-ca. 185 B.C.