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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Romila Thapar

Historian of Asoka and Mauryan decline, exacting about evidence and imperial mythology.

Why this matters

Thapar models demythologizing ancient authority without cynicism.

Focus in observatory

Works

book

Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas

Thapar, Romila. *Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas*. 2nd ed. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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