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Who is known as the "Napoleon of India"?
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Samudragupta
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Samudragupta earned the title 'Napoleon of India' from historian V. Smith due to his extensive military conquests across the Indian subcontinent. His campaigns, documented in the Allahabad Pillar inscription by his court poet Harishena, expanded Gupta rule from the Himalayas to the Deccan plateau. Neither Akbar (Mughal), Chandragupta I (Gupta founder), nor Ashoka (Mauryan) carries this specific epithet.