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In fact the candour and emotion of his messages on stone show him less as a political figure than as a self-reflective individual. He was normal as a ruler of uncommon ambition, but utterly unusual as the pioneer of a model of humane governance. But who was the flesh-and-blood Ashoka? The third emperor of the Maurya dynasty, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing most of India as well as its western borderlands. Wells portrayed him as the sole shining star of antiquity. Jawaharlal Nehru considered him the greatest emperor of all time. Ancient rulers regarded him as the iconic Buddhist king.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Soft cover. This is the most historically rich and readable book on Ashoka and his context. She provides him with contextual flesh, teasing out his psychology and personality from his edicts and archaeological data about life in India over the last few centuries BCE. Recovering Ashoka’s life and times from legend, Nayanjot Lahiri crafts a wonderful biography of this most extraordinary emperor.