Author:Keay, John. Based on the latest research, this is an indispensible history of a country set to be a definitive influence on the future of world economics, politics and culture. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent, while sharing a common history and culture, are not now, and never have been, a single unitary state; the book accommodates Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as other embryonic nation states like the Sikh Punjab, Muslim Kashmir and Assam.
