Reimagining Aśoka : memory and history /
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| Imprint: | New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012. |
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| Description: | xvi, 450 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9021648 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Prolegomena
- 1. Asoka: A Retrospective
- 2. The Languages of the Composition and Transmission of the Assokan Inscriptions
- Part I. Emergence of Asokan Studies
- 3. Archaeology and Asoka: Defining the Empire
- 4. From Kautilya to Kosambi and Beyond: The Quest for a 'Mauryan/Asokan' Coinage
- 5. Bhagwanlal Indraji's Pioneering Contribution to Asokan Studies
- Part II. Asoka and his Times
- 6. Asoka's Inscriptions as Text and Ideology
- 7. The Composition of Asoka's Pillar Edict Series
- 8. Linguistic Experiments: Language and Identity in Asokan Inscriptions and in Early Buddhist Texts
- 9. The Fate of Asoka's Donations at Lumbini
- 10. The Yona Era and the End of the Maurya Dynasty: Is There a Connection?
- 11. Mauryan Pillars of the Middle Ganga Plain: Archaeological Discoveries of Sarnath-Varanasi and Chunar
- 12. Environmental Changes in North Bengal: An Opportunity for the Mauryas?
- 13. Is the Arthasastra a Mauryan Document?
- 14. Asoka the Greek, Converted and Translated
- Part III. Asoka Reimagined
- 15. Asoka and Museums
- 16. The Commingling of Gods and Humans, the Unveiling of the World, and the Descent from Trayastrimsa Heaven: An Exegetical Exploration of Minor Rock Edict I
- 17. Asoka: Model Ruler without a Name?
- 18. Asoka-type Buddha Images Found in China
- 19. Asoka, Historical Discourse, and the Post-Colonial Indian State
- References
- Notes on Contributors
