Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas

With a new afterword, bibliography and index

Thapar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

356 Seiten

1998 | New ed of 3 Revised ed
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-564445-6 (ISBN)

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This work is based on the edicts of Asoka, whose policies are analyzed against the background of Mauryan civilization in India during the third and fourth centuries BC. The author offers an interpretation of Asoka's connection with Buddhism.

First published by the Clarendon Press in 1961, this authoritative work is based largely on the edicts of Asoka, whose policies are analysed against the background of Mauryan civilization during the third and fourth centuries BC - one of the most important periods of Indian civilization. The author offers an interpretation of Asoka's connection with Buddhism and shows how he was able to make use of a general movement of social and spiritual change for the political and moral integration of his Empire. This edition contains an additional map showing sites discovered since 1961, a revised up-to-date Bibliography, a new Index, and an extensive Afterword where the author discusses additions to scholarship in this area since the book's first publication.

Romila Thapar is at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.1998
Zusatzinfo	frontispiece, halftones, line drawings and maps
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	348 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-19-564445-X / 019564445X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-564445-6 / 9780195644456
Zustand	Neuware