Much has been written about Imperial architecture, but this is the first book to dig deeply into the extent of imperial extravagance set against the economic and social conditions of ordinary subjects, from Ashoka to the Raj.
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A.S. Bhalla is a Special Professor at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK and was formerly Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and Special Adviser to the President of International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa. Earlier he had a distinguished career in the United Nations Civil Service. He has held academic positions at Cambridge, Oxford, Yale and Manchester. He is the author of Poverty and Exclusion of Minorities in China and Indi a, Royal Tombs of India and Poverty among Immigrant Children in Europe, among other publications.
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