A History of India

India’s languages and cultures are uniquely diverse, yet somehow it has always been possible for this huge country to be united. Dietmar Rothermund tells the story of the decay of the ancient Gupta Empire through the glorious time of the Mughals to the present day. He focuses in particular on the twentieth century, when the country won independence from Britain in a dramatic struggle for freedom, although at the price of division into India and Pakistan, and then became the world’s largest democracy.