India (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanley Wolpert
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: Prehistoric to the twentieth century
- Setting: India
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Politics, Science or scientists, Religion, Violence, Women, Muslims, India or East Indian people, Hindus or Hinduism
- Locales: India
Stanley Wolpert, the author of A New History of India (1977) and of a previous book also entitled India (1965), has written a readable, solid introduction to the land and people of one of the world’s most complex countries and civilizations. Evidently conceived for the nonspecialist for whom India may be only a name on a map, the new India addresses the subcontinent under the successive rubrics of geography, history, religion, society, arts and sciences, and politics. The result is both balanced and a bit bland, nourishing and yet at the same time slightly...
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