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Vir Savarkar on Ashoka.......

You just contradicted yourself with those two statements. I'm arguing that Ashoka was hardly the pacifist or great king he's made out to be. If he was a true pacifist, for what reason did Ashoka ban Vedic sacrifices, rituals performed by Indian women ? Or the persecution of Nirgranthas and...

What territories he unified ? He was handed down a massive empire by his grandfather Chandragupta and father Bindusara. Kalinga is the only kingdom he added :- Truth is Ashoka lost the greatest opportunity to expand outwards especially when India was at the zenith of their power. Instead...

It's interesting how the mainstream narrative set by Indologists never considered Chandragupta Maurya 'great'. Son of a humble maid who created the largest empire in Indian history.

In Ashoka's India, drawing a picture of the Buddha bowing down to Nirgrantha (Mahavira, 24th Jain Tirthankara) was to invite death .

Around the same era as Ashoka, China had a great king named Shi Huang who unified and forged the Han nation. The different paths chosen by Shi-huang & Ashoka still impact the 2 civilizations. Some have remarked that Mao truly was his manasaputra where as chacha Nehru fancied himself to be...

Ashoka is commonly eulogized in Indian history textbooks as a great emperor and a pacifist. A current television serial is adding to the legend. The problem is that this is all based on very thin evidence and, even a little bit of probing, suggests a very different story. In 274BC, Bindusara...