This deal actually closed in early October, but I am hopeless at timely self-promotion, so here we are a month later. NEVERTHELESS I am delighted to announce that Colleen Taylor Sen's eighth book, a history of the Maurya dynasty in India and its greatest ruler, Ashoka the (aptly nicknamed) Great, will be published by the British press Reaktion Books. Here is the deal memo on PublishersMarketplace: Historian of Indian cuisine and culture Colleen Taylor Sen's THE MAURYA DYNASTY