Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The Archaeology Department of the Madhya Pradesh Government may soon shift the Mauryan Era (325-181 BCE) pillar located in the Bagh Umrao Dulha locality in the Old City to ...

The finding has rekindled hopes that it could lead historians to a pillar installed in Meerut around 3rd century BCE by Ashoka, the third emperor of the Mauryan dynasty. Historian Dr KK Sharma ...

A stone pillar dating to the Mauryan empire at the Feroz Shah Kotla Fort here has shown signs of corrosion, with a part of the inscription flaking away. Although it is not clear as to when the ...

These developments have reinvigorated hopes of historians could trace the pillar that was installed by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka at Meerut in the 3 rd century BCE. “The Gazetteer (of 1904) mentions ...