![]() ![]() The vestiges of ancient times remain with us in so many ways. Even when India fought against the devious intentions of the marauding invaders, she still adopted and retained the positive vestiges of their culture, as in the case of the Mughals and their biryani. ![]() Her heritage extends back over many thousands of years, over the passage of which, different groups of people, friendly or inimical, whether seeking to conquer or to find refuge against persecution, have been assimilated. India, the book amply proves, has never needed civilizing. The strength of that research and the power of the narrative gives the lie to the British imperialist claim that they were in India in order to civilize her and that India has had no civilisational history. ![]() I can well believe his statement that if the publishers had not taken the draft away from him, he would have continued with the research forever. The depth of research and reading that he has done for this book is simply fantastic and highly impressive. Reading through this interesting book gave me, as a reader, the sensation of a work to which the author has given his all. Ideas, facts and conversations that I seem to have hidden away somewhere in my head all came tumbling out as I wrote out the chapters one by one." I was prepared to enjoy Sanjeev Sanyal's Land of The Seven Rivers ever since I read the second line of his Author's Note in which he says, " as I wrote this book, it felt like I have been preparing for it for all my adult life. ![]()
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