![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The coming of Vasco do Gama through sea route. The books focuses on Delhi mainly to discuss all historical events from indraprastha of Mahabharat to multiple raids of Mahmood of gazni, Muhammed ghori, taimur, babar to shahjahnbad ( now old Delhi) of shah jaha, British building of Delhi and dividing it for fat white, thin white and thin black now known as lutenys Delhi to modern day Delhi.Īuthor also discusses southern India specially their sea trade, influence on East Asia like Singapore ( named after singhpur - place of lions), combodia, Vietnam etc. If Homer's llyad although seemed some epic made up story at first has ultimately led to the conclusion that trojan was an actual event in 12th BC, then we can use all ancient epics to find out the grain of truth of earliest unwritten history of mankind. First chapter discussing rivers in detail didn't really help.įor the earliest parts of history book heavily relies on using Indian epics to extrapolate historical events which is fair enough IMO. ![]() Halfway through the book I realized it's more about Indian history with a focus on geography and not about Indian River system over millennia. Sanjeev Sanyal is so much more refined, graceful, knowledgeable and restrained even in his criticism. My first thought while reading first chapter was why on earth was I wasting my time trying to read uncouth authors' like tony Joseph of early Indians. ![]()
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