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Searching for Ashoka
- Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand
Engelsk Paperback
Searching for Ashoka
- Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand
Engelsk Paperback

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Reveals how the persona of India''s most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

Blending travelogue, history, and archaeology, Searching for Ashoka unravels the various avatars of India''s most famous emperor, revealing how he came to be remembered-and forgotten-in distinctive ways at particular points in time and in specific locations. Through personal journeys that take her across India and to various sites and cities in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Thailand, archaeologist Nayanjot Lahiri explores how Ashoka''s visibility from antiquity to the modern era has been accompanied by a reinvention of his persona. Although the historical Ashoka spoke expansively of his ideas of governance and a new kind of morality, his afterlife is a jumble of stories and representations within various Buddhist imaginings. By remembering Ashoka selectively, Lahiri argues, ancient kings and chroniclers created an artifice, constantly appropriating and then remolding history to suit their own social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
258
ISBN-13:
9781438492841
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438492847
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Udg. Dato:
2 sep 2023
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
2 sep 2023
Forfatter(e):
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