A History of India – Volume one

Here Romila Thapar traces the evolution of India before contact with modern Europe was established in the 16th century.
Her account of the development of India’s social and economic structure is arranged within a frame work of the principal political and dynastic events. This absorbing narrative covers some 2.500 eventful years of history from the establishment of Aryan culture in about 1000B.C. to the coming of the Mughals in A.D.1526 and the first arrival of European trading companies.