Colleen Taylor Sen, a culinary and food historian of South Asia—as the Foreword informs—picked up this study of Ashoka, the greatest and third ruler (c. 272/268-233 BCE) of the mighty Maurya dynasty (c. 325/321-185 BCE), on account of her interest in Ashoka’s renowned policy of curbing the killing of living beings, nonviolence,
Reading Ashoka Historically and Through Legends
Ranabir Chakravarti
ASHOKA AND THE MAURYA DYNASTY: THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF ANCIENT INDIA’S GREATEST EMPIRE by By Colleen Taylor Sen Speaking Tiger Books, 2022, 261 pp., INR 699.00
December 2023, volume 47, No 12