What is the actual cause of Kalinga war

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What is the actual cause of Kalinga war..

Answer / nishant konar

the actual cause of kalinga war was to conqure kalinga the
rich land of india

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What is the actual cause of Kalinga war..

Answer / kanimozhi

All other territories were conquered by asoka's
predecessors.Kalinga was the only unconquered territory.

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What is the actual cause of Kalinga war..

Answer / sarath kumar

The actual cause is he wanted to conquer the whole india but kalinga was diffcult so he wanted to conquer the kalinga kingdom

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What is the actual cause of Kalinga war..

Answer / sharat

The main reasons of kalinga war as Karuvaki, Kalinga was a
prosperous kingdom,teritorial expansion,Trading purpose.
These are main reasona.

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What is the actual cause of Kalinga war..

Answer / @kamal

The geographic background or scenery of kalinga attracted ashok n the kalinga was a wealthier state in relating to gold, iron, diamond. The another reason was that, kalinga had a vast army who had the ability to fight until they die and conquer the world

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What is the actual cause of Kalinga war..

Answer / bibhu das

the actual cause of kalinga war was to love affair of Asoka
with karuvaki,the beutiful fisher girl of kalinga and also
the fiancee of the prince of kalinga.so Asoka waged war
against kalinga.

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What is the actual cause of Kalinga war..

Answer / b.n.mohapatra

Ashoke was an invadore, Cruel, & sarphira empire of Mourya.
That the concept was that "He is the most powerful man in
world who can able to expand more his emperial territory".
This was the cause of war

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What is the actual cause of Kalinga war..

Answer / ramesh

The Kalinga War was a war fought between the Mauryan Empire
under Ashoka the Great and the state of Kalinga, a feudal
republic located on the coast of the present-day Indian
state of Orissa. The Kalinga war is one of the major
battles in the History of India

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What is the actual cause of Kalinga war..

Answer / rohit

the kalinga was unconquered state situated in between
tamralipti and dakshinavarta & it was causing problems for
trade between these two reasons of mauryan empire that's
why the war of kalinga was necessary

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What is the actual cause of Kalinga war..

Answer / guest

Kalinga was a thorn in the body-politic of the empire

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