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UPSC 2016: Who of the following had first deciphered the edicts of Emperor Ashoka?
(a)Georg Bühler
(b)James Prinsep
(c)Max Müller
(d)William Jones
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James Prinsep, an officer of the Bengal Mint and scholar-epigrapher, first successfully deciphered the Brahmi script and identified the inscriptions as Emperor Ashoka’s edicts in 1837. Georg Bühler, Max Müller and William Jones made important contributions to Indology but did not achieve this particular breakthrough.
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This question was asked in UPSC CSE Prelims 2016, GS Paper 1, as Question 39. It falls under Ancient History > Mauryan Empire.
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