BCE, Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire stood at the height of power. His dominion stretched from present-day Afghanistan ...

Kalinga war was a horrifying event as it was mentioned in 13th Rock Edict of Ashoka. Approximately, hundred and fifty thousand people were wounded while hundred thousand people were killed in the ...

Emperor Ashoka, after witnessing the horrors of the Kalinga War, embraced Buddhism and dedicated his rule to promoting peace, tolerance, and compassion through moral edicts.

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 ...

Senior BJP leader and former Minister Biswabhusan Harichandan’s recent description of Kalinga War as a myth has sparked off a controversy and attracted strong reactions from noted ...

A group of 16 historians came together to discuss various aspects of the war that was fought around 261 BCE between the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka and the independent kingdom of Kalinga (Odisha).

The Kalinga War Kalinga was a sovereign democratic state (monarchial parliamentary democracy) enjoying a great pride. Eight years after Ashoka’s ascension, he announced a war against Kalinga.

In the public imagination of Ashoka, the Kalinga war – fought between the Mauryan Empire under Ashoka and the state of Kalinga – played a crucial part in the metamorphosis of the king.

Anti-war consciousness Ashoka himself followed this ethic until the conquest of Kalinga when the scale of wanton destruction, the displacement of 1,50,000 people, and the death of at least 1,00 ...