These symbols were chosen in 1947 by India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, an admirer of Ashoka. Nehru named his daughter (and future PM) Indira Priyadarshini Nehru, her second name ...

On Ashoka statues found in India, Dr. Sharma said one statue of the Indian king and another one of his wife were discovered at Sannathi in Karnataka about a decade ago.

Eight years after seizing power around 270 B.C., Ashoka led a military campaign to conquer Kalinga, a coastal kingdom in east-central India. The victory left him with a larger domain than that of ...

Why Ashoka, the emperor of India who inspired the symbols of new republic, is still worth reading His ideas were very influential for the generation of Indian leaders who produced the Constitution ...