About the Book: A New History of India for Children: From Its Origins to the
Twenty-first Century
In A New History of India for Children, award-winning historian Rudrangshu
Mukherjee along with photographerarchivist Toby Sinclair and the late cultural
historian Shobita Punja, tell the story of one of the oldest, most diverse
countries in the world with simplicity and clarity. The book touches upon all
the most important milestones in Indias history, from the first dinosaurs to
roam its lands to the metro that snakes through its modern, metropolitan capital
city.
It begins in prehistory, billions of years ago, describing how the geography of
India came to