Emperor Ashoka - Worthy of the Epithet Great? | Prof. Irfan Habib

[@ByaivsjzRahgakzhz]

He is like Noam Chomsky of India.

[@hitendrapanchal5778]

Mr Aroera

[@kalzangdiki863]

Thank you professor for this in-depth explanation on Ashoka and he is indeed great !

[@sayeedmohammad8398]

Prof Irfan Habib is a great historian.. It is matter of pride to hear him..

[@sayeedmohammad8398]

@@abhi4312 Prove it wirh historical facts then your view will be considered as Great than Irfan Habib sahab. But you are product of whatsapp university you can criticize only without basis

[@sayeedmohammad8398]

@@abhi4312 Chillatey raho aise hi duniya ki history mita nahin saktey. Aaj k time mein poori duniya k historian jantey hain ki reality kya hai. History distort krne waley jhoot bolne waley aaj k badey historian ho gaye jinhon ne history ka ek page padha nahin, aur jinkey works ko world mein jana jata hai unki scholarship ki wajah se wo lier ho gaye? Amazing.. Whatsapp university per jo karna hai wo karo ja k wahan koi suboot nahin mangta lekin yahan aao to proof k sath research paper likho, historical journals mein publish karo, historical conference mein padho jakar, historians se bahes karo, jawab do inka aur apni qabliat manwao jakar tab Historian samjhe jaogey duniya mein.

[@knots1975]

​@@sayeedmohammad8398 Several historians have rubbished almost everything he has written. His strong bias would leave him unworthy of being labelled a historian. Shame on him and others like him.

[@Shahi-bangalah_1352]

I think the host should have been more patient & disciplined. He's constantly interrupting sir irfan habib when he's at the middle of his talking.

[@mace7467]

It is a wrong practice to praise one's own religion while criticizing other's religion. According to him, by doing this one is actually doing greater harm to one's own religion. Try to understand the main ideas of another's religion, and respect it. ~Ashoka

[@hitendrapanchal5778]

Areora is knowledgeable He knows how to find truth Areora I salute you

[@Minato89672]

please a do session and invite irfan habib , romila thapar , vikram sampath and rajiv malhotra for at least 2 hour .. iwill payy for it 😅

[@mayankpaneri1295]

2 of them won't agree..

[@rubinmathias7555]

Rajiv Malhotra is a pseudo science peddler , his inter life reincarnation billionaire idea with Nityananda which became a meme being the best example. Sampath is an apologist for Savarkar and the Right Wing. Irfan Habib being a Marxist keeps criticizing commie governments and even concedes the good of Gandhi (communal harmony aspects) , despite being ideologically opposed to him.

[@pirzadaasif5485]

Great! Some may not agree 😛

[@AM-jr9lg]

It will make sense if you describe what topic they will debate on?

[@zamzamah121]

I think the young man Arora interviewing Prof Habib got him! If there was no reading public, in India at the time of Ashoka, then why did Ashoka bother to write the edict at the first place? And then while begging to differ, Prof Habib went to say exactly what was the guy suggesting, but also kind of retracting what he said earlier that Ashoka brought writing to India!! From 32 minutes on!

[@user-lp9vz6lu3t]

you are a fool to believe that ashoka bought writing to india 😂😂

[@girishm5880]

In the beginning the Professor said writing existed before Ashoka but just in form of words and not as sentences or text. Ashoka introduced writing in a widespread manner to spread his messages for posterity. So there is no retraction.

[@user-lp9vz6lu3t]

@@girishm5880 are you out of mind words existed but not sentence 🤣arthshastra , tripitak , vedas , pannini sutras ,gemmini sutras , upanishad ,ramayan ,mahabharat , kon likh raha tha 😂oldest manuscipt of vedas are found in 600 bce ,ashoka may be the first king to write a long commandments of dhamma for public writing is much older even before Indus valley ye sale lungi chapp maulana historian kutch bhi bolenge aur tum man loge cross check kiye ho kabhi jake

[@AncientIndia64]

The edicts could not be read by the public easily, unless they climbed up the edicts. the edicts were likely read publicly by designated public speakers to an audience

[@yugmathakkar4023]

@@AncientIndia64 incorrect. It seems to you that the edicts are high up the pillars because, a part of the pillar was underground acting as the foundation for the rest of the pillar. The writing was therefore, at a level of human eyesight and could be read very easily by anyone. It's ludicrous to even think that a complex civilization like India, which had built such complex cities, complex philosophy and theology, did not have a well established writing system before 260 BCE.

[@Loveyourself__143]

Brother If you want real history of Ashok please you read Samart ashok ka sai ithas which was written by rajendra Prasad singh.and you read his INSCRIPTIONS.We not got ashok 84000inscripitions. Fir that we can't say about ashok

[@avibcci1297]

Is great britain, Alexander worthy of that title?

[@rajkamald684]

Yes because it's not Indian or Asian history.We should study the world

[@AshokGupta-oq6hs]

Sir, according to muslim historians only moghuls can be great,rest are tit bits.

[@abdurraj7733]

lost too much time at the begining and ur voice so bad...overacting actor

[@abdurraj7733]

waisting time anchor