Regarding Maxwell Carter’s review of “Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King” by Patrick Olivelle (Books, Jan. 27): One can be benign only if one has the choice to be ruthless. One can be credited for ...

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In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian ...

India’s famed Emperor Ashoka was an ancient convert from Hinduism to Buddhism. He demonstrated that a person is NOT forced by others to convert from one religion to another. Today, “religious ...

Discover India's oldest monument. Commissioned by Emperor Ashoka, it is a key site for early Buddhist stone architecture and ...

Air India flight AI 171 crashed shortly after take-off near Ahmedabad, killing 274 people. The incident mirrors the 1978 'Emperor Ashoka' disaster when Air India flight AI 855 plunged into Arabian Sea ...

Chandragupta Maurya, India's first emperor, overthrew the Nanda dynasty. With Chanakya's guidance, he unified the subcontinent. He defeated Seleucus and expanded his empire. Mauryan rule saw economic ...

Chandragupta Maurya was the first king to establish an empire in India. He died a monk. IMAGE: The Chandragupta Maurya stamp issued in 2001. Photograph: Kind courtesy Wikimedia Commons Chandragupta ...