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Ashok Chavan (अशोकराव शंकरराव चव्हाण)
Ashok Chavan (अशोकराव शंकरराव चव्हाण), Maharashtra Chief Minister 8 Dec 2008 to 11 Nov 2010 for the INC, left the Congress for the BJP in February 2024 and now sits in the Rajya Sabha (2024 to 2030); his tenure was marked by the Adarsh scam.
Ashok Choudhary
Ashok Choudhary is an Indian Janata Dal (United) politician and minister in the Government of Bihar holding Food and Consumer Protection, after serving as Building Construction and Education minister.
Ashok Gajapathi Raju
Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju, TDP politician from Vizianagaram, Union Civil Aviation Minister 2014–2018 (NCAP 2016, scrapped 5/20 rule), seven-term Andhra MLA, and the 22nd Governor of Goa since 26 July 2025.
Ashok Gehlot (अशोक गहलोत)
Ashok Gehlot (अशोक गहलोत), born 1951 in Jodhpur, is an Indian National Congress leader and three-term Chief Minister of Rajasthan (1998–2003, 2008–2013, 2018–2023), long-serving MLA from Sardarpura, former Lok Sabha member from Jodhpur, and AICC general secretary.
Ashok Kamte (अशोक कामते)
Ashok Kamte (अशोक कामते), 1965–2008, Maharashtra IPS officer and Additional Commissioner of Police, Mumbai, killed fighting terrorists near Cama Hospital in the 26/11 attacks; posthumous Ashoka Chakra recipient whose widow's book and RTI fight exposed discrepancies in the official account.
Ashok Khemka (अशोक खेमका)
Ashok Khemka (अशोक खेमका), retired 1991-batch IAS officer of the Haryana cadre; whistleblower who cancelled the 2012 Robert Vadra-DLF land deal mutation and was transferred 57 times before retiring 30 April 2025 as Transport Additional Chief Secretary.
Ashok Kirtania
Ashok Kirtania is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who serves as a West Bengal minister and has been the MLA for Bongaon North since 2021.
Ashok Kumar Rawat
Ashok Kumar Rawat, born 1975, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Misrikh, Uttar Pradesh, in the Lok Sabha across four terms since 2004.
Ashok Kumar Tiwari
Ashok Kumar Tiwari, born in 1971, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who won the 2023 election for Mayor of Varanasi, his first contest.
Ashok Kumar Yadav
Ashok Kumar Yadav, born in 1970, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the Madhubani constituency of Bihar in the Lok Sabha since 2019.
Ashok Mahto gang
Ashok Mahto gang (अशोक महतो गैंग), a Kurmi-led Bihar organised crime group active 1990–2006 in Sheikhpura, Nawada, and Lakhisarai, fought a caste gang war with Akhilesh Singh over sand mining and extortion; leader convicted only in a jailbreak case, released 2023.
Ashok Mittal
Ashok Mittal is an Indian politician, a Rajya Sabha member from Punjab who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2026 and is Chancellor of Lovely Professional University.
Ashok Singh (Madhya Pradesh politician)
Ashok Singh is an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress, representing Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha for his first term, 2024 to 2030.
Ashok Singhal
Ashok Singhal is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who holds the health portfolio in the Assam government and represents Dhekiajuli, winning the 2026 election with nearly 60% of the vote.
Ashok Soota
Ashok Soota, born 1942, is an Indian IT entrepreneur who built Wipro's IT business, co-founded Mindtree in 1999, and founded Happiest Minds in 2011.
Ashok Uike
Ashok Uike (born 1964) is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as Maharashtra's Minister of Tribal Development and represents Ralegaon in the state assembly.
Ashoka (non-profit organization)
Ashoka (non-profit): international 501(c)(3) founded 1980 by Bill Drayton, distinct from Ashoka University; pioneered social entrepreneurship, elects 4,000+ Ashoka Fellows in 99 countries, HQ Arlington, Virginia.
Ashoka (अशोक)
Ashoka (Aśoka, अशोक), third Mauryan emperor (r. 268–232 BCE), conquered Kalinga in his eighth regnal year, then ruled through Dhamma. Known for rock and pillar edicts, pre-Kalinga lay Buddhist affiliation per Minor Rock Edict I, and rediscovery by Prinsep in 1837.
Ashoka Chakra
The Ashoka Chakra is the navy-blue wheel with 24 equally spaced spokes at the center of the white band of India's flag, adopted on 22 July 1947.
Ashoka Chakra (अशोक चक्र) (military decoration)
Ashoka Chakra (अशोक चक्र), also spelled Ashok Chakra, is India's highest peacetime gallantry decoration, peacetime equivalent of the Param Vir Chakra, awarded for conspicuous bravery away from the enemy to military, police and civilian recipients, 86 recipients as of 2025.
Ashoka University
Ashoka University: private, non-profit liberal arts and sciences university in Rai, Sonepat, Haryana, established May 2, 2014; India's first interdisciplinary university, fully residential, with IIRF No. 1 private ranking and noted academic-freedom controversies.
Ashoka's accession
Ashoka's accession (अशोक का राज्यारोहण) was Ashoka's seizure of the Maurya throne at Pataliputra after Bindusara's death around 273 BC, followed by coronation in 268 BC.
Ashoka's missions and embassies abroad
Ashoka's missions and embassies abroad were envoys sent after the Kalinga war to spread dharma abroad, reaching five Hellenistic kings named in Rock Edict XIII and Sri Lanka.
Ashoka's policy of Dhamma
Ashoka's policy of Dhamma: the Mauryan emperor's ethical code of social conduct, propagated through rock and pillar edicts after the Kalinga War, distinct from Buddhist doctrine itself.
Ashoka's visit to Lumbini
Ashoka's visit to Lumbini (लुम्बिनी यात्रा) was a 249 BC pilgrimage by Mauryan emperor Ashoka to Lumbini, Nepal, the Buddha's recorded birthplace, where he erected an inscribed pillar and reduced the village's taxes.
Ashokasundari (अशोकसुन्दरी)
Ashokasundari (अशोकसुन्दरी, Aśokasundarī), also Bala Tripurasundari, is a Hindu goddess, daughter of Shiva and Parvati, born from the Kalpavriksha in the Padma Purana, wife of Nahusha and mother of Yayati.
Ashot I Artsruni
Ashot I Artsruni (Աշոտ Արծրունի) was an Armenian prince who ruled Vaspurakan, southeast of Lake Van, from 836 to 852 and again from 868 until his death in 874.
Ashot I of Armenia
Ashot I of Armenia (c. 820–890) was the first king of the restored Armenian kingdom and founder of the Bagratuni dynasty, crowned in 885 at Bagaran after serving as Prince of Princes.
Ashot I of Tao-Klarjeti
Ashot I the Great (Georgian: აშოტ I დიდი) was a Georgian Bagrationi ruler who founded the Tao-Klarjeti principality, received the Byzantine title of kouropalates, and died in 826.
Ashot II of Armenia
Ashot II, called Yerkat ("the Iron"), was King of Armenia from 914 to 929, a Bagratid ruler who restored Armenian statehood after his father's murder.