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The Shortest History of India
Author: John Zubrzycki
Publisher: Picador India (Pan Macmillan India)
Pages: 260
Price: Rs 599
“India is the world’s oldest civilization and its largest democracy. It is the fulcrum between the eastern and western parts of Asia and an assertive Indian Ocean power. It is also changing rapidly, ditching the last remnants of the socialist experiment that guided its economy for decades and adapting to a new world order where its rhetoric of non-alignment — its refusal to side with one superpower or another — has less and less relevance.”
With these words from the intro to his “shortest” history of India,
