New Delhi considers itself the successor state to Ashoka. This is the only figure that the bigots can find to justify the unity of the conglomeration of more than 570 states. The 80 year rule is considered the map of Greater India. The figure of Ashoka has a larger than life presence for the Hinduvata and New Delhi. Many extremist Hindus base their ideology on Ashoka and try to build a case that Ashokas empire should be resurrected as Akhand Bharat. Pakistani history is being hijacked by people outside the borders of Pakistan. Now scholars are questioning the existence of Ashoka and many others.
Dr. Naveed Tajammal has written some fascinating articles on Ashoka. He claims that Ashoka never existed and is simply a figment of the imagination of the Hinduvata who needed a figure to justify the myth that India belonged to the Hindus and on one else.
Dr. Naveed Tajammal, an American educated and trained scholar claims that:
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Dr. Jamil Khan describes it eloquently.
Most significant thing about asoka is the use of Arabic words ,Biddat, rah, Din ,malik,etc ( see my script ch) ~ 800 years before Islams advent; ( this was kept as secret);
The British position was Arabic came with Islamic invasion ( William Jones 1786) and is entirely different from Aryan-indo-european this was the basis for FUTURE Aryan-Hindu nation; This made sense to all believers in Noahs myth, even now it is the core of religious racism of Judeo-Chritisans faith.
Here lies the germ of Pakistan Aryan brother hood struggling against semitic Muslim rival; a noble struggle indeed; British were hailed as Aryan brothers liberators of India from semitic invaders; Ashoka thus is the greatest milestone for good/bad.
Early India wrote no history because it never made any. The ancient Indians never went through a struggle for life like the Greeks, the Persians and the Romans. Secondly, the Brahmanas early embraced the doctrine that all action and existence are a positive evil and could therefore have felt but little inclination to chronicle historical events.