About the Book: India: a History
The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India-from
ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continents social,
economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest
writers on India and the Far East. Indias history begins with a highly advanced
urban civilisation in the Indus valley, regressing to a tribal and pastoral
nomadism, and then evolving into a uniquely stratified society. The pattern of
inward invasion plus outward migration was established early: from Alexander the
Great via the march of Islam and the great Moghuls to the coming of the East
India