Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from the Chalukyas to

The history of the vast Indian subcontinent is usually told as a series of ephemeral moments when a large part of modern-day India was ruled by a single sovereign. There is an obsession with foreign invasions and the polities of the Gangetic plains while the histories of the rest of the subcontinent have been reduced to little more than dry footnotes. Now in this brilliant and critically acclaimed debut book Anirudh Kanisetti shines a light into the darkness bringing alive for the lay-reader the...See More