The Discovery of India
India is incredible. India is full of contrasts. India is unity
in diversity. India is you.
When someone writes about India’s entirety, its history, geography,
religions, languages, rulers, movements, almost everything under sun, it will
not be a stand-alone book but it will be a book of books. Nehru’s The Discovery of India is full of foot
notes, sometimes extending more than a quarter length of the page.
With this book, you will be set on a journey of 5000 years, starting from its
roots in Harappa, touching up on Veda, Upanishads, practice of yoga, early Hindu
rulers to Mughal sultans, arrival of East India Company, and freedom movement
up to 1945.
By the time you are done with this book, you would have figured
out what next to read or research. And when someone says he/she knows India
enough, you can smile at them.
I am not taking on those who instantly criticize Nehru here,
instead asking them to read this book to find that he was a well-read person
with fine writing skills.
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