Ashoka
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Episode 6: North India from 200 BC to 200 AD
Shrikanth and Maneesh are joined by Jay Vardhan Singh to continue the History of India series with North India from 200 BC to 200 AD, taking in Bactrians in central…
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How Indians invented the universal religion
Disagreeing with guest Armin Navabi on a podcast, the author argues that universalist, post-tribal religion was not invented by Christianity and the Abrahamic tradition, pointing to Ashoka’s Edict 13 and…
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Review: The Buddha and the Sahibs and Ashoka—The Search for India’s Lost Emperor
Sunil Koswatta reviews Charles Allen’s two books on how British Orientalists rediscovered Ashoka and the Buddha. It praises Allen’s storytelling and the honest scholars among the sahibs, and dwells on…
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Counter factual
X.T.M poses a counterfactual: would a typical Shudra peasant in UP be better off today without British rule, without Turkish incursion, or if Ashoka had replaced Hinduism with Buddhism, noting…
