India, Aug. 3 -- More than 2,000 years ago the king of the Magadha dispatched one of his less favoured sons to quell a people's revolt in an extremely important city. The revolt was dealt with not through repression but dialogue. This is regarded as India's first recorded rebellion anywhere in the subcontinent. The prince would later become India's most celebrated emperor, one who claimed to embrace ahimsa, and emphasised religious tolerance in his rock-edicts throughout his empire. Emperor Ashoka Maurya remains an enigmatic figure in ancient India. He founded the first recorded Indian empire which stretched from Cuttack to Taxila and from Kashmir to deep Karnataka. He is remembered the most for the war and massacre in Kalinga in which te...