India: A History
Keay. John
From Michael Moons Bookshop, PBFA, Whitehaven, CUMBR, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since November 5, 2010
From Michael Moons Bookshop, PBFA, Whitehaven, CUMBR, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since November 5, 2010
About this Item
1st edition softback, 2000. Pictorial wrappers a little spine-creased, otherwise VG. Pages clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 576 pages. Seller Inventory # ABE-1539601464499
Bibliographic Details
Title: India: A History
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
Taking the longest possible view, Keay surveys what is both provable and invented in the historical record. His narrative begins in 3000 B.C., with the complex, and little-understood, Harappan period, a time of state formation and the development of agriculture and trade networks. This period coincides with the arrival of Indo-European invaders, the so-called Aryans, whose name, of course, has been put to bad use at many points since. Keay traces the growth of subsequent states and kingdoms throughout antiquity and the medieval period, suggesting that the lack of unified government made the job of the European conquerors somewhat easier--but by no means inevitable. He continues to the modern day, his narrative ending with Indian-Pakistani conflicts in 1998.
Fluently told and well documented, Keay's narrative history is of much value to students and general readers with an interest in India's past and present. --Gregory McNamee
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