Deepens our sense of the wonder that was India' ~ Pankaj Mishra'A gem of a book that is a joy to read . . . You can almost touch and feel the centuries and millennia as they pass by' ~ Tony Joseph'Arora explores how Indians lived ate loved built fought and made sense of the material rational and spiritual world down the ages . . . [A] mega-ambitious project' ~ The Hindu'A wonderfully evocative book. Arora invites the reader to reflect on the past without overwhelming her with dry historical fact