Emperor Chandragupta (Can One Man build An Empire ?)

Emperor Chandragupta (Can One Man build An Empire ?)

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Book Specification

Item Code: NAM897
Author: Adity Kay
Publisher: Hachette India
Language: English
Edition: 2016
ISBN: 9789350095683
Pages: 406
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.0 inch X 5.5 inch
Weight 300 gm

Book Description

About the Book

Becoming an emperor is not easy especially when there are enemies every where and no one you can trust

India , third century BC. A land ruled by powerful dynasties, each fighting for supremacy over the other, unaware that a conqueror from Greece has arrived at the country’s doorstep in a bid to establish his dominion over the entire known world .

In the east, the Magadhan empire is ruled by the Nanadas , a clan driven by a limitless hunger for power and given to violence and abuse . from the embers of their lust and avarice a boy is born - a boy named Moriya , raised by a tribe of peacock - tamers and oblivious of the legacy that is rightfully his … until the day he is sought out by chanakaya , while a wily political strategist looking for vengeance against the ruthless rulers of Magadha . under the training and tutelage and of his shrewd adviser , the tentative young man , now christened Chandragupta , makes his way across the vast plains of bharatvarsha to meet the famed invader Alexander and build and army of his own. But being a warrior prince, he finds, comes at a heavy price - of trust and loyalty and perhaps even his life.

This is the story of a youth who must battle supreme odds - both within and without to fulfil destiny a s one of the greatest emperors the world has ever known . this is the story of Chandragupta Maura.

About the Author

Aditya Kay has nurtured a secret love for history all though her years of working as an editor in a magazine , a human resources professional and a management consultant . she has lived in various places in India and has been as much of a border -crosser in her career as writer , writing editorials , essays , stories for children and boo for older readers across genres . Her electric reading in history - across non –fiction and fiction – and have led to her fascination with the varied possibilities of times past and has also served as an impetus to travel to long -ago worlds , if only through fiction.

Contents

The Boy , Moriya ix
Part I the Lost Prince of Magadha
1 A rare Bird 3
2 Secret Journeys 11
3 The Man on the Run 24
4 An offer 40
5 The journey Beings 46
6 Early Lessons 57
7 Treacherous city 71
8 All Creatures of the Forest 86
9 Building an Army 94
10 An Evil Prince 106
Part -II the Warrior - King of Magadha
11 Moving North 127
12 The Conqueror 142
13 The Traitor who Wasn't 156
14 Escape 166
15 Taxila 173
16 The Battle for Mathura 196
17 Shravasti and Kanyakubja 207
18 Kashi and Prayag 215
19 The Battle for patliputra 224
20 City of dreams 233
21 A New King - Emperor 252
22 A king’s Death 256
23 The Accursed King King of Gandhara 269
24 Emperor 278
25 Meeting a lost friend 286
26 seleucus 292
27 The Warning 299
28 The stand-off 305
Part-III Dharma
29 Of Poison and other Matters 321
30 the Princess who would not be Queen 330
31 The Messenger 's News 336
32 The Dahrma of friendship 342
33 A king's dilemma 348
34 A Place for a Queen 359
35 Unanswered Questions 366
36 Ill fares the land 376
37 In the Footsteps of the Monks 382

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