Charles Allen's Ashoka, The Search for India's Lost Emperor, published by Little, Brown in 2012, is a popular history recounting how the emperor Ashoka, largely forgotten for centuries, was rediscovered and reconstructed by nineteenth and twentieth century epigraphers and historians working from his rock and pillar edicts. Allen is an experienced popular historian of South Asia rather than an academic Ashoka specialist, so the book is best used for its well-documented narrative of the rediscovery process. A claim about the precise content or dating of a specific edict is better supported by a dedicated scholarly edition of the edicts themselves.
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Charles Allen's Ashoka, The Search for India's Lost Emperor, Little, Brown, 2012, the middle tier reflecting that Allen is an experienced popular historian of South Asia rather than an academic Ashoka specialist, best used for its well documented narrative of how epigraphers and historians rediscovered Ashoka from his edicts. A claim about the precise content or dating of a specific edict is better supported by a dedicated scholarly edition of the edicts themselves. NotesPopular history recounting the rediscovery of the emperor Ashoka.
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AuthorCharles Allen
PublisherLittle, Brown
Publication Year2012
URLhttps://www.worldcat.org/title/ashoka-the-search-for-indias-lost-emperor/oclc/777179258
Source TypeBook (popular history)
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This source names Asia directly: "Allen is an experienced popular historian of South Asia rather than an academic Ashoka specialist, so the book is best used for its well-documented narrative of the rediscovery process."
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