Dear Jarrod, For Aśoka, I would ask to republish the recently published "Map of Ashokan inscription sites and geographical names" by Pankaj Chakraborty of Kolkata in Patrick Olivelle, Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King (Yale, 2023), xxxii. It is well drawn and labeled but quite small in the book (so difficult to read) and deserves a second chance to be seen. Mapping inscription sites avoids taking a position on debates about the extent vs. porosity of Ashoka’s empire.
For Ancient India, I would look at the numismatic maps presented in the work of Joe Cribbs or Wilfried Piper. I don’t have the material on hand to give you a page number. Numismatic evidence is the clearest way to map pre-Ashokan South Asia. You might also check in with MAHSA (Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia) <https://www.mahsa.arch.cam.ac.uk/> to see if they can lend a hand with the data they have collected, largely by digitizing much later maps, if I understand correctly. All best, Divya -- Divya Kumar-Dumas, PhD <https://arthistory.umd.edu/directory/divya-kumar-dumas> President’s Postdoctoral Fellow: South Asian and Global Art & Architecture, Art History, and Archaeology Department of Art History & Archaeology University of Maryland [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Research Associate | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), NYU <https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/affiliates/research-associates/divya-kumar-dumas> > On May 22, 2026, at 4:40 AM, tiziana.lorenzetti--- via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Jarrod, > the recent volume Splendori dell'India / Splendours of India (Rome 2026, ed. > Sabinae) contains reproductions of ancient maps of India, dating back to the > 15th/16th century. I don't know if the maps you're looking for are in the > book. However, many are rare and never published. > Best wishes, > Tiziana Lorenzetti > > ps If you want more info, please, email me off list > ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) >> Il 21/05/2026 17:48 CEST Whitaker, Jarrod via INDOLOGY >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> ha >> scritto: >> >> >> Dear Colleagues >> >> I'm in need of two maps of 1) "Ancient India," and 2) "Mauryan Empire under >> Aśoka" for a chapter on "Warfare in Ancient India" (forthcoming Cambridge >> History of War). One of the editors passed away unexpectedly a few year ago >> and we cannot identify the sources of the maps he produced for my chapter. >> >> If you have high quality maps and would let me use or reproduce them (with >> explicit email permission), I would be externally grateful (and acknowledge >> you in the chapter). Or can you point me to a public source. I can't see >> anything in WikiCommons. >> >> Please email me off-list! >> >> Cheers >> >> Jarrod >> >> -- >> Jarrod L. Whitaker, Ph.D. >> Professor for the Study of Religions >> Department Chair >> >> Department for the Study of Religions >> Wake Forest University >> 1834 Wake Forest Rd >> Winston-Salem, NC, 27106 >> >> 336.758.4162 >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> ॐ मणिपद्मे हूँ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__list.indology.info_mailman_listinfo_indology&d=DwQFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=1wbo7cyG-JNoXCRmefTJBg&m=eUJQ6yHmrv3YB6kRndUoNHHEmdVp1qaHbQZFn_kJ4MXZWbpKz1YTpmBvg07TDhZN&s=LtCWqNefbcfRSEcPsZvBVoDDjODFYMIXcgKH608Pu2Y&e=><Cover >> Book.pdf> > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__list.indology.info_mailman_listinfo_indology&d=DwICAg&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=1wbo7cyG-JNoXCRmefTJBg&m=eUJQ6yHmrv3YB6kRndUoNHHEmdVp1qaHbQZFn_kJ4MXZWbpKz1YTpmBvg07TDhZN&s=LtCWqNefbcfRSEcPsZvBVoDDjODFYMIXcgKH608Pu2Y&e=
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