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Watch Review Recommended: Adults and Young Adults. An interesting book which has tried to explains why we have so many different languages , different traditions . After all it would not be a brainer when we move through India. History of wars and an extremely old sub continent without doubt brings in migrations ,displacements ,borrowed ideas , languages and this
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Click Here to watch Review Recommended: Young Adult, Adult A bit of a dry book in my humble opinion. Deals with how the long forgotten emperor Ashoka was discovered during British India . And the various ways they were waylaid in their quest. Thankful that we have discovered him and learnt a lot about his life. And how a once
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Watch The Review Recommended: Young Adult and Adult A short read a on the life of the last greatest Mughal . The greatest military tactician , hard worker , pious Aurangzeb . It reads a little into his life since he did the lions share for the empire and conquered the unconquerable deccan for a small duration. An insight into his
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Recommended : Middle Schoolers and above For those wanting to cultivate a love of history in their children,I would recommend this book.As an older reader this book made me nostalgic as I remember reading Akbar and Birbal legendary stories during my very own middle school years. An absolutely interesting read for middle schoolers. Amrita has done an excellent job to
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Recommended age: 8 years and up Beautiful book to explain Indian history to a young child.It contains maps, drawings , fascinating information and links to additional information on each topic. Subhadra Sen Gupta does a wonderful job of captivating a young child’s imagination ,narrating history in a manner that would be understandable for a young children.I thoroughly enjoyed the concise
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Recommended age: Upper Middle school and high school This is valuable book for those interested into reading more into South Indian history. I am always eager to read new information on south Indian history.And this book is a good source for some real fascinating information about the south. For me this book helped in understanding: How the name Coramandel came
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Recommended age: Upper Middle school and High school. This is valuable book for those interested into intensive and thorough reading into South Indian history. The book begins with sources that were taken into account to writing of history (coins ,rock edicts and writings by foreign travellers) Goes on to explain the Geography of the south Then moves to chronologically describe
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Recommended Age:Middle school and High school This book was one I had to read,because this one is about my home state Tamil Nadu and very particularly the city where I live in Chennai whose previous name was Madras.It was an absolutely fascinating read,it helped me to look back a few centuries to see how Chennai looked like. Click Here to
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Recommendation:Graduates. Now that I had read accounts of the British raj from Indian sources i wanted to read the view from the other side.I am interested in reading different views as long as the facts are straight and that’s how I got into reading this book.It was interesting to read from the view point of the British how they perceived
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Recommendation: High School The Rulers of India was a biographical book series edited by William Wilson Hunter and published from the Clarendon Press, Oxford,now not in print.You can get it on kindle or from the archives. Robert Clive is a important figure of Indian history,as he was the one to bring Bengal under the rule of East Indian Company. His
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