About the Book: Empires Of The Indus - The Story Of A River
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan
mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For
millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of
imperial expansion; today it is the cement of Pakistans fractious union. Five
thousand years ago, a string of sophisticated cities grew and traded on its
banks. In the ruins of these elaborate metropolises, Sanskrit-speaking nomads
explored the river, extolling its virtues in Indias most ancient text, the
Rig-Veda. During the past two thousand years