Through a series of edicts carved in stone and placed throughout the empire, Ashoka proclaimed to his people the importance of Buddhist values and his beliefs about how his people should act.

Ashoka had pillars like this put up across the whole of his empire. They're great feats of architecture, and they would stand either alone by the side of the highways or in the city centres - much ...

However, it was under Ashoka the Great that the Mauryas ... reforms helped unify a diverse and vast empire, while Shah Jahan’s love for architecture resulted in iconic structures like the ...