Appropriating Ashoka

May 21, 2015 11:42

Should Ashoka be appropriated as a Kushwaha? The Bharatiya Janata Party evidently thinks so. While our third century BC emperor was the ruler of most of India and its western borderlands (with an empire that stretched from Afghanistan to Andhra), ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, the BJP has relentlessly presented him as someone whose caste identity is worth glorifying above everything else. Read

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