BOOK SUMMARY OF HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN INDIA AND WEST ASIA :
Proud inheritors of historic legacies, India and West Asia have been friends and
neighbours since the dawn of civilisation. With the advent of Islam the
Arab-Indian contacts were further strengthened. It was the Arabs who attempted
the first written history of India and drew its maps. They learnt a great deal
from Indian science and medicine and spread it across the world, notably the
so-called Arabic numerals and the concept of zero, thereby introducing India to
the West. Both the regions suffered common experiences of oppression and
exploitation under colonialism. Today, the