Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

California

A New History of India, now in its fifth edition, explores today's affluent India. This edition remains the most readable and illuminating one-volume history of India and brings students up-to-date on current developments.

A New History of India

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Stanley Wolpert

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

After more than 20 years in print, A New History of India continues to be the most readable and popular one-volume history of India available. Wolpert has managed to condense over 4,000 years of continuity and development into a graceful and engaging 544 pages of text. The book discussesmodern India's rapidly growing population and even more rapidly expanding industry and economy withing the context of the country's past, as well as considering the prospects for India's future. Throughout, Wolpert strives to record history fairly and truthfully, portraying with clarity andintensity both the brightest achievements of Indian civilization, and the darkest depths of its persistent socio-secual inequities, and economic and political corruption.This edition has been revised and updated with a new preface and a new final chapter reflecting the significant social, political, and economic issues which have occurred since 1997.

Category - Non Fiction / History

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Excellent

Listed - 4 months ago

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Ships From - California

Est. Publication Date - Jun 1982