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Samudragupta: The Making of an Emperor
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4th Century CE. India. A prince is born to the Chandragupta I, the third in succession to the Gupta dynasty, ruling over a small kingdom. Predating Napoleon by more than a thousand years, he grows up to become as crafty on the battlefield as Hannibal, as adept at annexation as Bismarck, and, towering over all of them in statecraft. Samudragupta.The Emperor who ushered in India's Golden Age and laid the foundations of the greatest empire since the Mauryas: He brought peace and prosperity to a land divided, not only by religion, but also by small and large kingdoms and empires in the subcontinent. And survived plots against him. The novel relates how Samudragupta, a middle son, becomes the Crown Prince, inheritor of politically fused kingdoms, and battles divisive forces to confirm his own way to greatness.
Bappaditya Chakravarty
A graduate and Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, Bappaditya Chakravarty has been a professor, business executive, bureaucrat, and consultant, over a career spanning more than thirty-five years. He has worked for the Government of India and the World Bank and has traveled extensively all over the world. The Sahitya Akademi in its literary journal published his short collection of poems in English. He has written extensively in his native language Bengali including a techno-thriller. The English version of the thriller, titled The Goa Connection was published in 2014. He divides his time between writing, consulting and vacationing with his family. He currently lives in Brussels with his wife and two loved cats rescued from Dhaka streets.