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Index
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Dedication
Gem in the Lotus
Chapter One: The Genesis
1. The Rose-apple Land
2. Enigma of the Indus Valley
3. Priest-kings and Merchant Princes
4. Gods of the Valley
5. Rigor Mortis
Chapter Two: Vedic India
1. Indra’s Legions
2. The Vedic Corpus
3. The Domestication of Aryans
4. The War-begotten King
5. Colour and Caste
6. “Chant am I, Verse Thou”
7. Unto Us a Happy Mind
8. Across the Void a Dividing Line
9. Gods of the Mountain
Chapter Three: The Age of Ferment
1. Twilight of the Gods
2. Neyti! Neyti!
3. Rebels and Prophets
4. The Ford-maker
Chapter Four: Gem in the Lotus
1. A Saviour is Born
2. The Middle Path
3. The Fire Sermon
4. The Journey’s End
5. Monkey and the Pitch-trap
6. Ehi Bhikkhu!
Chapter Five: The First Empire
1. The Patricides
2. A Greek Interlude
3. Live Short, Live Much
4. Kautilya’s Revenge
Chapter Six: The Forgotten Emperor
1. The Wicked Prince
2. “All Men are My Children”
3. Beloved of the Gods
4. Asoka’s End-life Crisis
Chapter Seven: The Clockwork State
1. All for the King
2. The Leviathan
3. Mauryan State Capitalism
4. The Great Tax Heist
5. Kautilyan Commandments
6. Enemy and the Enemy of the Enemy
Chapter Eight: The Never-Never Land
1. Greek Fables
2. Women, Sophists and Cannibals
3. Mlecchas and Sages
Incidental Data
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Copyright
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