Finding history: the locational geography of Ashokan inscriptions in the Indian subcontinent

Smith, Mónica L.; Gillespie, Thomas W.; Barron, Scott; Kalra, Kanika

doi:10.15184/aqy.2016.6

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“…Bloch (1950). The study of these inscriptions is still an active area of research (e.g., Olivelle et al 2012;Falk 2013;Smith et al 2016). Salomon (1998) and Falk (1993;2006) bring together much of the recent research.…”

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Evidence for Hospitals in Early India

Wujastyk

2022

Hist. Sci. South Asia

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The article surveys the history of South Asian literature and epigraphy for reliable evidence regarding the existence of early hospitals. It explores the reasons that may account for the exclusion of South Asian data from international scholarship on the history of hospitals. The widely-repeated idea that King Aśoka built hospitals is refuted. Nevertheless, hospitals may be very early in India. It is suggested that scholarly medical literature on the building and equipping of a hospital was transmitted to Baghdad in the late eighth century and influenced the construction of early Islamic hospitals

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