La série parle de l'empereur indien Ashoka, petit-fils de Chandragupta Maurya.
L'histoire commence avec le jeune Ashoka (Siddharth Nigam) qui reçoit les conseils de Chanakya (Manoj Joshi).
Being a history student i have read about Mauryan empire and of course about Ashoka all the time but this show as i know is created by Contilloe Ent. (which make shows like Maharana Pratap and Jhansi ki rani, all being inaccurate to history) has done no research about Ashok.
"chakravartin Ashok Samrat" is one of the finest show in the Indian historical genre.It is no doubt Siddharth Nigam fully justifies the main character "ashoka".