The course of Indian historical events would have altered substantially if Ashoka executed his militaristic plans to ...

Through a series of edicts carved in stone and placed throughout the empire, Ashoka proclaimed to his people the importance of Buddhist values and his beliefs about how his people should act.

A lot of the information about Ashoka has been learnt from inscriptions at Taxila, Afghanistan and other parts of India. For it tells us about his empire stretching from the edges of non-Tamil ...

How does a ruler actually change the way the people think? Today's leader, Ashoka the Great, took on a vast empire and through the strength of his ideas began a tradition which leads directly to ...