Asoka Book - Comprehensive Historical Analysis | Detailed Examination Of King Asoka's Reign, Eight Informative Chapters, Inscriptions With Translation And Annotations, Extensive Appendices, Includes Maps And Plates

We are known in the market for manufacturing and supplying a wide assortment of good quality books by being located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Asoka Book is one of widely acclaimed and demanded one. Written by one of the eminent historians this book brings out substantially the chief features of King Asoka's glorious rule. It represents Asoka as a great humanitarian, wise stateman, good administrator, social reformer and upholder of truth, law and order. Nowhere else can we get such an immense wealth of information on the social and cultural milieu in the reign of this monarch. The book is divided into eight chapters. Of these the first six deal with the early life and family of the Emperor, the details of his career as king, his administration, religion, monuments, and the social conditions of the country during this period. The last two chapters contain the text of the inscriptions, their translation and annotation. Chapters II and VII are followed by appendices on the Asokan chronology from the legends and Rock Edicts. Chapter VIII has an appendix on the Script, Dialect and Grammar of the inscriptions. The value of the book is enhanced by the insertion of an index and addenda on some valuable inscriptions and Rock Edicts, fifteen plates and a map of Asoka`s Empire.