TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen,Charles
TI  - Ashoka: the search for India's lost emperor
SN  - 9781408701966
U1  - 934.045 ALL 
PY  - 2012///
PB  - Little, Brown
KW  - Asoka
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - To 324 B.C
KW  - Sources
KW  - Historiography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - India's emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history, but he was forgotten for almost 2000 years. Only a few stone monuments and inscriptions survived. This is the story of how these keystones to the past began to be discovered by British Orientalists in the 18th century and their mysterious lettering deciphered
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