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"India: A History combines narrative details with social, economic and cultural analysis. Provocative and authoritative, it confirms John Keay's reputation as one of the foremost writers on the subcontinent.". Seller Inventory # 003815
Bibliographic Details
Title: India A History
Publisher: HarperCollins, London
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New
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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