A bird's eye view of India's long history

From the making of the Indian landscape to the reign of Narendra Modi, A New History is a single volume historical account where sound scholarship is interwoven with state-of-the-art photographs

A New History of India: From Its Origins To The Twenty-First Century

Author: Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Shobita Punja and Toby Sinclair

Publisher: Aleph

Pages: 480

Price:  Rs 999

I am loath to review books of friends. Rudrangshu Mukherjee and I go back to October 1979. We shared the same carrel at the Indian Institute Library in Oxford; together savoured our morning cup of coffee; had lunch together at St. Edmund Hall when it served trout; and, in June 1980, went to Lords to watch Michael Holding taking six wickets in the first innings followed by a 145 by Viv Richards. Reviewing a book co-authored by an