Revisiting Asoka- III: Ashoka The Terrible
[contextly_sidebar id=”9fNbdtifJBTRSuJJyFO8QXdx2e2Cla2v”] Though Bindusara’s ministers had preferred Ashoka to Sushima and helped him to come to power, they did not hold him in high regard and were More...
Revisiting Ashoka-II: Ashoka’s Rise To Power
[contextly_sidebar id=”698SYlgAUt1bn3LtrT7kEfu53XbGK1z7″] Our story begins in the city of Champa (Champaran), where a Brahmin named Pilindavatsa (also called Janasana) had a very beautiful daughter, More...
A critical look at identification of Aśoka with Devānāmpriya of major rock edicts
[contextly_sidebar id=”fv4sa8EejJWWpe5YPp7ZccBNNiNO4nH2″] In my previous article, I provided evidence that Sandrokottos of Greek accounts should be identified with Chandragupta-I of Imperial Gupta dynasty More...
Who was Sandrokottos? Chandragupta Maurya or Chandragupta-I of Imperial Gupta Dynasty?
[contextly_sidebar id=”Cw0UniwWmGT9cWfWIIPQwhAPjtxwu0Oz”] In my previous articles “Flawed Sheet Anchors of Indian History” and “Force-fitting of evidence in the making of Indian History”, I described More...
Flawed Sheet Anchors of Indian History
The chronology of Indian history rests on two sheet anchors. The first sheet anchor is the identification of Sandrokottos of the Greek accounts with Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Mauryan Dynasty. Sandrokottos More...
Ashoka And Pushyamitra Sunga: A Study In Mythmaking
Let us elaborate one example of pro-Buddhist bias in modern indologist scholarship. It has to do with a story of alleged Hindu persecution of Buddhism by Pushyamitra, a general in the service of the declining Maurya More...
The Need for a Resurgent Bharat
There is an ongoing battle occurring at many levels relative to the concept of India and what India is, was and is meant to be. This is not merely a scholarly debate to arrive at truth but resembles more a struggle More...