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# Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka

Stone ages, Indus and post-Indus chalcolithic, megaliths, the Ganges cities, Taxila, Charsada, Arikamedu, Mauryan monuments.

- **Language:** English
- **Author:** [Mortimer Wheeler](https://indike.org/pramana/person/wheeler-m)
- **Extent:** 693 passages, 48,841 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · London: Thames & Hudson 1959; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by Gemini… · In copyright (Mortimer Wheeler †1976); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…

## Contents

- [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c1) — 23 parts
- [c2 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2) — 15 parts
- [c3 Illustrations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c3) — 4 parts
- [c4 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c4) — 6 parts
- [c5 Chapter I. The Scene](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c5) — 10 parts
- [c6 Chapter II. Time](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c6) — 15 parts
- [c7 Chapter IV. More Stones](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c7) — 140 parts
- [c8 Chapter VI. The Ganges Civilization](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c8) — 107 parts
- [c9 Chapter VIII. South Indian Megaliths](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c9) — 48 parts
- [c10 Chapter IX. Ashoka](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c10) — 26 parts
- [c11 Notes](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c11) — 3 parts
- [c12 Chapter III](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c12) — 28 parts
- [c13 Chapter V](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c13) — 19 parts
- [c14 Chapter VII](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c14) — 21 parts
- [c15 Bibliography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c15) — 8 parts
- [c16 Sources of Illustrations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c16) — 1 part
- [c17 The Plates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c17) — 42 parts
- [c18 Notes on the Plates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c18) — 57 parts
- [c19 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c19) — 32 parts

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