About the Book: India and the World: A History in Nine Stories
What is the earliest evidence of human history in India and how does that
compare with other parts of the world? What was happening in India when the
pyramids were being built in Egypt? What was different about Ashokas
inscriptions when compared with the public inscriptions of other emperors? How
have different civilizations pictured the divine? How did rulers promote
themselves through grand court art and aesthetics? What have been the routes of
civilizational exchange over land and sea that make India a part of the world?
And have those exchanges always been