India -- History -- To 324 B.C

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A long awaited, substantial and welcome revision of Thapar's best-seller, A History of India, Volume One, published in 1966. Like the original work, this is a superb synthesis of academic literature relating to the history of India.

"Ashoka Maurya--or Ashoka the Great as he was later known--holds a special place in the history of India. Through his third century BCE quest to govern the Indian subcontinent by moral force alone, Ashoka transformed Buddhism from a minor sect into a major world religion. His bo…