India: A HistoryThe most authoritative and highly regarded single volume history of India from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub continents social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East. 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.