Author: E S Modak
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 503
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788129116307
Description
This book is a historical novel and therefore required me to do research to understand the period and the historical figures of that time. Yet I maintain that is more fiction than historical treatise.
This well-researched work of fiction is based on the life of Ashoka Maurya, arguable the greatest monarch to rule India. This epic tale begins as prime Ashoka, Viceroy of Takshashila, fights his half-brother, Sushim to claim the throne.
He then conquers Kalinga, the last remaining independent kingdom in Jambudvipa (India). Appalled by the bloodshed of the Kalinga war, the emperor turns pacifist. He marries the widow of Kalinga’s former king and embraces Buddhism.
Contents
Author's Note
Acknowledgements
1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16
17. Chapter 17
18. Chapter 18
19. Chapter 19
20. Chapter 20
21. Chapter 21
22. Chapter 22
23. Chapter 23
24. Chapter 24
25. Chapter 25
26. Chapter 26
27. Chapter 27
28. Chapter 28
29. Chapter 29
30. Chapter 30
31. Chapter 31
32. Chapter 32
33. Chapter 33
34. Chapter 34
35. Chapter 35
36. Chapter 36
37. Chapter 37
38. Chapter 38
Glossary
Bibliography