The Mauryan Empire: How One Family Unified All of India | Episode 2

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India was never one country — until one man and his teacher decided to change that.

In Episode 2 of our Mauryan Empire series, we tell the complete story of India's first great empire: how Chandragupta Maurya seized the throne of Magadha in 322 BCE, defeated the successor of Alexander the Great, unified the subcontinent for the first time in history — and then walked away from all of it.

We cover the reign of Bindusara, the son who pushed the empire to its southern limits. And then — the story that changed the world — Ashoka the Great. The brutal war of Kalinga. The moment that broke a king. The transformation that turned a conqueror into a philosopher. And how a 2,300-year-old lion on a stone pillar ended up on every Indian passport, coin, and government building today.