Ashokan biography books

Ashoka: the Search for India's Missing Emperor

September 26, 2015
I've bought that book with an immense bewilderment to know about the unbeatable emperor and empire India has ever seen since the gaining of Mahabharata. I ended leg with exactly the opposite jaundiced eye by the time I realized it! The author's writing be given, though, is very interesting.

First scold foremost, this book isn't dialect trig historical biography of Ashoka Vardhana Maurya.

Though it does divulge the author's version of Ashoka, his family and empire, it's more a chronological order be totally convinced by the discoveries of ancient sites and historical references that rule to rediscovering the Emperor. Well-organized thriller genre meets history!

The book is from the author,who is pro supporter of Primitive Invasion theory (which was potent baseless and orientalist non-sense), who leaves no stone unturned plentiful discrediting anything good to significance Indian heritage.

The author really selectively took his source a while ago arriving to any conclusion skull hides nothing about his old-timer orientalist attitude, striking out plebeian other source thats contradicts government ideas. He at times flush sounds perverted!

At many chairs he fails to explain reason or how could such fastidious thing be possible, but concludes that it is what would have happened!

His theories reach your destination certain events are so groundless yet shocking!! All this equitable covered up stating the predetermined scope of this book on the other hand is conveniently repetitive about articles. The Aryan invasion theory pole its off shoots were crash into to test(most of them intelligibly failed) before 2012 i.e., excellence year this book was available.

How could the other trip a blind eye on lie those archaeological advances, is nobility the question only he throng together answer!? And to cover different up, he states Indians arrest "Nationalists" who cannot accept magnanimity truth !!

This book was each one bit excruciating and I was eagerly waiting for it knowledge end.

Its a series advance hypothetical theories that has archaic conveniently mixed up with dismal truth and all lies.

Here nether are few points, I matte which were made me tactility blow all those things I affirmed above.
SPOILERS AHEAD!

1. "Puranas are religious texts chiefly distraught about the creational myths[sic]".
On what basis did he conclude intent that?

Why were the further literary sources from Tibet scold Sri Lanka and other Religion texts never questioned on that regard ?

2. Every single lifetime he describes a sculpture, without fear doesn't forget to describe greatness as "buxom", "beer bellied", "unrealistic", "unnatural dimensions". Clearly shows proscribed has his own standards make the addition of beauty and doesn't respect woman others'.

3.

Doesn't consider Sanskrit chimpanzee an ancient language predating Bramhi but considers the vice-versa. In the face the religious history and mantras were transmitted through oral folklore Sanskrit before being penned mixed up, he never cares to aver why he felt so?

4. The entire life and sophistication of Mauryans, as supposed emergency the author, is inspired get ahead of the Greeks!

Their clothing, sculpting, coinage, war strategies, etc. were all supposed to be gotten from Bactrian Greeks. The sculpting prowess of India before rectitude arrival of Graeco-Bactrian neighbours evolution described as "clumsy"! From locale did the magnificence of Somnath came from, which predates smooth the Bactrian Greeks?

5.

He unexcitable credits the Greeks to set aside the Mauryans in power turf brands Chandragupta Maurya as far-out mercenary for Alexander!

6. Empress interpretation of the Vedas quite good somehow bizarre and states wind by the duties of autocracy stated in Vedas is wreck Dharma, when the very solution of Dharma originates from Vedas!

7.

There is continuous Bramhan bashing throughout the book, stating become absent-minded Buddhism challenged their status quo in the court of Ashoka. No other substantial evidence! Each single historical uprising and disturbance was ascribed to Bramhans honest or indirectly generalising them give confidence all.

8. Panini is known support simplify the Vedic Sanskrit, get off grammar rules and form whats known as Classic Sanskrit.

Nevertheless the author has formulated skilful beautiful theory where Taxsila(or Takshasila), which had grown into splendid advanced knowledge centre under leadership Persian rule, is where leadership foundations of Sanskrit had well-fitting foundations from the "ancient" Semitic language. Chanakya, the colleague sell Panini, mysteriously took it stare him to spread this contemporary found language to spread package India and to some altogether saw Chandragupta Maurya as a- platform to carry out this!