Table of Contents: Reimagining Asoka

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Olivelle, Patrick(ed)
Other Authors:	Leoshko, Janice (ed.), Ray, Himanshu Prabha (ed.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Delhi Oxford University Press 2012
Subjects:	History History > ancient India Asoka reimagined

Table of Contents:

Prolegomena Asoka: a retrospective/ Romila Thapar The languages of the composition and transmission of the Asokan Inscriptions/ K.R. Norman Emergence of Asokan studies Archeologogy and Asoka: defining the empire/ Himanshu Prabha Ray, From Kautilya to Kosambi and beyond: the quest for a "Mauryan /Asokan"coinage/ Shailendra Bhandare, Bhagwanlal Indraji's Pioneering contribution to Asokan stusies/ Virchand Dharamsey, Asoka and his times Asoka's Inscriptions as text and ideology/Patrick Olivelle, The composition of Asoka's Pillar edict series/Harman Tieken, Linguistic experiments: language and identity in Asokan inscriptions and in early buddhist texts/Oskar von Hiniiber, The fate of Asoka's donations at Lumbini /Harry Falk, The Yona Era and the end of the Maurya Dynastry: Is there a connection?/Richard Salomon. Asoka reimagined Asoka and museums/ Janice Leoshko