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Books on Mauryans and Ashoka:

1 Alahakoon, Hector, The later Mauryas 232 B.C. to 180 B.C., New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1980.
2 Altekar, A. S. and Mishra, Vijayakanta. Report on Kumrahar excavations 1951-1955. Patna: K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute, 1959.
3 Banerji Sastri, Anataprasad, Early inscriptions of Bihar and Orissa, Patna: Patna University, 1927.
4 Barua, Beni Madhab, Asoka and his inscriptions, Calcutta: New Age Publishers, 1969.
5 Beglar, J.D., Report of a tour through the Bengal provinces of Patna, Gaya, Mongir, and Bhagalpur; the Santal Parganas, Manbhum, Singhbhum and Birbhum; Bankura, Ranigang, Bardwan, and Hughli; in 1872-73, Varanasi: Indological Book House, 1966.
6 Bhandarkar, D.R., Asoka, Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1955.
7 Bongard-Levin, G.M., Mauryan India, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1985.
8 Brajmohan Kumar, Archaeology of Pataliputra and Nalanda, Delhi: Ramanand Vidya Bhawan, 1987.
9 Buchanan, Francis and V. H. Jackson, eds., Journal of Francis Buchanan (afterwards Hamilton) kept during the survey of the districts of Patna and Gaya in 1811-1812, Patna: Government Printing, 1925.
10 Buchanan, Francis, An account of the districts of Bihar and Patna in 1811-1812, Patna: Bihar and Orissa Research Society, [1936]. 2 Vols.
11 Burgess, James. The Buddhist stupas of Amaravati and Jaggayyapeta in the Krishna District, Madras Presidency Surveyed in 1882 with translations of the Asoka inscriptions at Jaugada and Dhauli by Georg Buhler. Varanasi: Indological Book House, 1970.
12 Carratelli, Pugliese, tr. Bilingual Graeco Aramaic edict by Asoka: the first Greek Inscription discovered in Afghanistan. Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1964.
13 Chakrabarti, Manika, Malwa in Post-Maurya period: a critical study with special emphasis on numismatic evidences, Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1981.
14 Chattopadhyay, Bhaskar,Kushana state and Indian society: a study in Post-Mauryan polity and society, Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1975.
15 Chattopadhyaya, Sudhakar, Early history of North India: from the fall of the Mauryas to the death of Harsa c. 200 B.C. - A.D. 650, Calcutta: Progressive Publishers, 1958.
16 Cunningham, Alexander, Inscriptions of Asoka, Varanasi: Indological Book House, 1961. V.1
17 Dikshitar, V.R. Ramachandra, The Mauryan polity, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1993.
18 Eggermont, P.H.L., ed., Moral edicts of king Asoka, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1962.
19 Falk, Harry, Asokan sites and artefacts: a source-book with bibliography, Mainz: Von Zabern, 2006.
20 Gupta, P.L., Indian silver punchmarked coins, Magadha-Maurya Karshapana series, Nashik: Indian Institute of Research in Numismatic Studies, 1985.
21 Gupta, Parameshwari Lal, ed. Patna Museum Catalogue of Antiquities (stone sculptures, metal images, terracottas and minor antiquities), Patna: Patna Museum, 1965.
22 Gupta, S.P., The roots of Indian art, Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1980.
23 Hultzsch, E., Inscriptions of Asoka, Delhi: Indological Book House, 1969.
24 Irwin, John, Islam and the Cosmic Pillar, edited by Karen Frifelt and Per Sorensen, South Asian Archacology 1985, London: Curzon Press, 1989,
25 Irwin, John, Akbar and the cosmic pillar, Robert Skelton, and Andrew Topsfield, and others, eds. Facets of Indian Art: a symposium held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986.
26 Jha, Dwijendra Narayan, Revenue system in Post-Maurya and Gupta times, Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1967.
27 Kant, Shashi, Hathigumpha inscription of Kharavela and the Bhabru edict of Asoka: a critical study, Delhi: Prints India, 1971.
28 Konow, Sten, ed., Kharoshthi inscriptions with the exception of those of Asoka, Calcutta: Central Publication Branch, 1929.
29 Leidy, Denise Patry, The art of Buddhism: an introduction to its history and meaning, Boston: Shambhala, 2008.
30 Luders, H., List of Brahmi inscriptions from the earliest times to about A.D. 400 with the exception of those Asoka, Varanasi: Indological Book House, 1973.
31 Mishra, Yogendra, An early history of Vaisali from the earliest times to the fall of the Vajjian republic c. 484 B.C., Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1962.
32 Mishra, Yogendra, History of Videha from the earliest times to the foundation of the Gupta Empire A.D. 319, Patna: Janaki Prakashan,1981.
33 Mittal, J.P., History of ancient India: a new version, New Delhi: Atlantic, 2006.
34 Mookerji, Radha Kumud, Asoka, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1962.
35 Mookerji, Radha Kumud, Chandragupta Maurya and his times, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1960.
36 Mukherjee, B.N., Studies in Aramaic edicts of Asoka, Calcutta: Indian Museum, 1984.
37 Murti, G. Srinivasa, tr., Edicts of Asoka (Priyadarsin), Madras: Adyar Library, 1950
38 Nagar, Shanti Lal, Indian monoliths, New Delhi: Intellectual Publishing House, 1992.
39 Nikam, N.A., ed., Edicts of Asoka, Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1962.
40 Nilakanta Sastri, K.A. Age of the Nandas and Mauryas, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1967.
41 Norm, Phelps, The great compassion: Buddhism and animal rights, New York: Lantern Books, 2004.
42 Ojha, Gaurishankar Hirachand, Asoka kaleen dharmik abhilekh, Delhi: Bhartiya Kala Prakashan, 2002.
43 Olivelle, Patrick, Leoshko, Janice, Ray, Himanshu Prabha, eds., Reimagining Asoka: memory and history, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012.
44 Pandey, C.B., Mauryan art,Delhi: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan, 1982.
45 Pathak, Vishuddhanand, History of Kosala upto the rise of the Mauryas,Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1963.
46 Przyluski, J., The legend of emperor Asoka in Indian and Chinese texts, Calcutta: Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, 1967.
47 Rastogi, Naresh Prasad, Inscriptions of Asoka, Varanasi: Chowkhamba Sanskrit, Series Office, 1990.
48 Ray, Niharranjan, Maurya and Post-Maurya art _ a study in social and formal contrasts, Calcutta: Indian Council of Historical Research, 1975.
49 Ray, Niharranjan, Maurya and Sunga Art, Calcutta: Indian Studies Past & Present, 1965.
50 Sastri, Nilakanta K.A.,ed. A comprehensive history of India: the Mauryas and Satavahanas, Bombay: Orient Longmans, 1957. V.2
51 Sen, Amulyachandra, Asoka's edicts, Calcutta: Indian Publicity Society, 1956.
52 Sharma, R.A., Technology and material life of Central India Chalcolithic period to Mauryan period, Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 1991.
53 Singh, Madan Singh, Life in North-Eastern India in Pre-Mauryan timeÍs with special reference to c. 600 B.C. - 325 B.C., Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1967.
54 Singh, Mahesh Vikram, Society under the Mauryas, Delhi: Indological Book House, 1989.
55 Singh, Satya Narayan, Political ideas and institutions under the Mauryas, Patna: Janaki Prakashan, 1992.
56 Sircar, D.C., Inscriptions of Asoka, New Delhi: Publications Division, 1975.
57 Smith, Vincent A., Asoka: the Buddhist emperor of India, Delhi: S. Chand, 1964
58 Smith, Vincent A., ed., Edicts of Asoka, New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1992.
59 Thapar, Romila, Asoka and the decline the Mauryas, London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
60 Turner, R.L., The Gavimath and Palkigundu inscriptions of Asoka, Hyderabad: Nizams Government, 1932.
61 Upasak, Chandrika Singh, History and palaeography of Mauryan Brahmi script, Patna: Nava Nalanda, 1960.
62 Upinder Singh, A history of ancient and early medieval from the Stone Age to the 12th century, New Delhi: Pearson Education, 2008.
63 Vallee-Poussin, Louis De La, L'Inde aux temps des Mauryas, Paris: E. De Boccard, 1930.
64 Woolner, Alfred, Asoka text and glossary, London: Humphrey Milford, 1924, 2v.

Journal Articles on Mauryans and Ashoka:

1 Asher, Frederick and Walter Spink, Maurya figural sculpture reconsidered, Ars Orientalis, Vol. 19, (1989), pp. 1-25.
2 Banerji-Sastri, A, Mauryan Sculptures from Lohanipur Patna, Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, Vol. XXVI, Part II, (June, 1940), pp. 120-124.
3 Boardman, John, Seals and Signs: Anatolian stamp seals of the Persian period revisited, Iran, Vol. XXXVI, (1998), pp. 1-13.
4 Burt, T.S., A description, with drawings, of the Ancient Stone Pillar at Allahabad called Bhim Senês Gada or Club, with accompanying copies of four inscriptions engraven in different characters upon its surface, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. III, No. 27, (March, 1834), pp. 105-123.
5 Flood, Finbarr B., Pillars, Palimpsests, and Princely Practices: translating the past in Sultanate Delhi, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, No. 43, Islamic Arts (Spring, 2003), pp. 95-116.
6 Huntington, John C., The Lomas Rsi: another look, Archives of Asian Art, Vol. XXVIII, (1974-75), pp. 34-56.
7 Irwin, John, Asokan Pillars: a reassessment of the evidence,: The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 115, No. 848, (Nov., 1973), pp. 706-720.
8 Irwin, John, Asokan Pillars: a re-assessment of the evidence - III: Capitals: The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 117, Nr. 871, (Oct., 1975), pp. 631-643.
9 Irwin, John, Asokan Pillars: a reassessment of the evidence - IV: The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 118, No. 884, (Nov., 1976), pp. 734-753.
10 Irwin, John, Asokan Pillars: a reassessment of the evidence-II: Structure: The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 116, No. 861, (Dec., 1974), pp. 712-727.
11 Irwin, John,The true chronology of Asokan Pillars, Artibus Asiae, Vol. 44, No. 4, (1983), pp. 247-265.
12 Jayaswal, K. P., Jaina image of Maurya Period, Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society,, Vol. XXIII, Part, 1, (March, 1937), pp. 130-132.
13 Marcus, Margaret F., Sculptures from Bihar and Bengal, The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 54, No. 8, (Oct., 1967), pp. 240-262.
14 McKibben, William Jeffrey, The Monumental Pillars of Firuz Shah Tughluq, Ars Orientalis, Vol. 24, (1994), pp. 105-118.
15 Morris, Rekha, The Didargannj Yakshi and the "Coque ou Bouffant de Chevelure" Hairstyle: A Reassessment, Archives of Asian Art, Vol. XLII, (1989), pp. 77-81
16 Pramod Chandra, Yaksha and Yakshi Images from Vidisa, Ars Orientalis, Vol. 6, (1966), pp. 157-163.
17 Scialpi, Fabio, The Ethics of Asoka and the Religious Inspiration of the Achaemenids, East and West, Vol. 34, No. 1/3, (Sept., 1984), pp. 55-74.
18 Shere, S. A., Stone Discs Found At Murtaziganj, Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, Vol. XXXVII, Parts 3-4, (Sep. & Dec., 1951), pp. 178-190.
19 Spooner, D.B., The Didarganj image now in Patna Museum, Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, Vol. V, Part I, (March, 1919), pp. 107-113.
20 Thapar, Romila, Ashoka ãa retrospective, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 44, No. 45, (November, 7-13, 2009), pp. 31-37.
21 Walsh, E.H.C., A Find of Punch-marked Coins in Patna City, Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, Vol. V, Part I, (March,1919), pp. 16-72.
22 Welch, Anthony, Architectural patronage and the past: The Tughluq Sultans of India, Muqarnas, Vol. X, (1993), pp. 311-322.
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