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A special agency of censors was also organized for the purpose of
enforcing the regulations concerning the sanctity of animal life
and the observance of filial piety, in the most extended sense.
These officers were expressly enjoined to concern themselves with
all sects, and with every class of society, not excluding the royal
family, while separate officials were charged with the delicate
duty of supervising female morals. In practice, this system must
have led to much espionage and tyranny] from Chapter VII: Asoka
Maurya and His Successors First published in 1906, this classic
nine-volume history of the nation of India places it among the
storied lands of antiquity, alongside Egypt, China, and
Mesopotamia. Edited by American academic ABRAHAM VALENTINE WILLIAMS
JACKSON (18621937), professor of Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia
University, it offers a highly readable narrative of the Indian
people and culture through to the time of its publication, when the
nation was still part of the British Empire. Volume II, From the
Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the
Invasion of Alexander the Great, by British scholar VINCENT ARTHUR
SMITH (1848-1920), features entertaining and enlightening
treatments of: the dynasties before Alexander Alexanders Indian
campaign imperial monarch Asoka Maurya the Indo-Greek and
Indo-Parthian dynasties the Gupta Empire and the white Huns the
reign of Harsha the medieval kingdoms of the north and much more.
This beautiful replica of the 1906 first edition includes all the
original illustrations.
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History of India (Hardcover)
Romesh Chunder Dutt, Stanley Lane-Poole; Created by Vincent Arthur Smith
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