Steel, who lived for many years in the Punjab, offers a popular narrative of Indian history from the Vedic age and the world of the epics through the Buddhist era, Alexander’s invasion and the great Maurya emperors, the Muslim conquests, Akbar’s court at Fatehpur Sikri and the Mughal decline, to the rise of the East India Company. She makes no claim to original research.
A colourful one-volume survey by the author of On the Face of the Waters, coloured by the outlook of the Raj. Download the free EPUB.