Emperor Chandragupta (Can One Man build An Empire ?)
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
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.
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.
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 |