Nayanjot Lahiri is Professor of History at Ashoka University. Her previous books include Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization was Discovered; Marshalling the Past: Ancient India and Its Modern Histories; and Ashoka in Ancient India, which was awarded the John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History in 2016.

"Lahiri strikes this reader as a learned, engaging, accessible, and above all wryly humorous travel companion. Throughout these journeys Lahiri reveals her lively personality with generous tributes to helpful colleagues past and present, with frequent apt quotations of Shakespeare, and with razor-sharp critical wit … I am most grateful to Nayanjot Lahiri for penning such an accessible and readable introduction to the complex workings of historical memory and mythmaking." — Ryan Overbey, H-Net Reviews (H-Asia)"The book is a product of academic labour, imagination and personal musings." — The Book Review

• Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Encountering Ashoka1. Imaging Ashoka at Sanchi2. Among Kings at Kanaganahalli3. On the Edge of a Junagadh Lake4. Looking Back at Barabar5. Searching Siblings in Sri Lanka6. Among Relics and Shrines in Myanmar7. Ashokas in Thailand8. Fabricating RemembranceBibliographyIndex

Nayanjot Lahiri is Professor of History at Ashoka University. Her previous books include Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization was Discovered; Marshalling the Past: Ancient India and Its Modern Histories; and Ashoka in Ancient India, which was awarded the John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History in 2016.

"Lahiri strikes this reader as a learned, engaging, accessible, and above all wryly humorous travel companion. Throughout these journeys Lahiri reveals her lively personality with generous tributes to helpful colleagues past and present, with frequent apt quotations of Shakespeare, and with razor-sharp critical wit … I am most grateful to Nayanjot Lahiri for penning such an accessible and readable introduction to the complex workings of historical memory and mythmaking." — Ryan Overbey, H-Net Reviews (H-Asia)"The book is a product of academic labour, imagination and personal musings." — The Book Review

• Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Encountering Ashoka1. Imaging Ashoka at Sanchi2. Among Kings at Kanaganahalli3. On the Edge of a Junagadh Lake4. Looking Back at Barabar5. Searching Siblings in Sri Lanka6. Among Relics and Shrines in Myanmar7. Ashokas in Thailand8. Fabricating RemembranceBibliographyIndex

Nayanjot Lahiri is Professor of History at Ashoka University. Her previous books include Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization was Discovered; Marshalling the Past: Ancient India and Its Modern Histories; and Ashoka in Ancient India, which was awarded the John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History in 2016.

"Lahiri strikes this reader as a learned, engaging, accessible, and above all wryly humorous travel companion. Throughout these journeys Lahiri reveals her lively personality with generous tributes to helpful colleagues past and present, with frequent apt quotations of Shakespeare, and with razor-sharp critical wit … I am most grateful to Nayanjot Lahiri for penning such an accessible and readable introduction to the complex workings of historical memory and mythmaking." — Ryan Overbey, H-Net Reviews (H-Asia)"The book is a product of academic labour, imagination and personal musings." — The Book Review

• Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Encountering Ashoka1. Imaging Ashoka at Sanchi2. Among Kings at Kanaganahalli3. On the Edge of a Junagadh Lake4. Looking Back at Barabar5. Searching Siblings in Sri Lanka6. Among Relics and Shrines in Myanmar7. Ashokas in Thailand8. Fabricating RemembranceBibliographyIndex