Paperback. Pub Date :2010-07-22 Pages: 608 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK A new edition of the most authoritative and highly-regarded single-volume history of India Fully revised to include the most recent research and to cover events. from partition to the present day.In India:. A History five millennia of the sub-continents history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East This definitive work combines narrative pace and skill with social. economic and cultural analysis . Indias history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley. regressing to a tribal and pastoral nomadism. and then evolving into a uniquely stratified society The pattern of inward invasion plus outward migration was established early:. from Alexander the Great via the march of Islam and the great Moghuls to the coming of the East India ...