
Beloved of the Gods: Ashoka Maurya in His Time and Ours
Echoes Of India: A History Podcast
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The Arta Shastra, a Treatise of the Morian Empire
For any one to rule a land mass as vast and diverse as india is not easy, especially when you can't rapidly send military expeditions to prevent rebellions from spreading. So how did ashoka, king of magata, managed to leave inscriptions in so many places? His inscriptions also refer to something called he tamma vijea, a victory through righteousness, rather than victories through conquest. But does this mean that all these regions peacefully surrendered to him and let him set up inscriptions because he was so peaceful and moralistic? How did the morian empire actually work? The british solution to this problem, which is a solution adopted by many indian historians
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