The Bible and the Making of Modern India Revised Edition

<p><span style=color: rgba(85 85 85 1); background-color: initial>Some politicians want to change the name India. They are embarrassed by the fact that the name and the idea of India came from the Bible.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(85 85 85 1); background-color: initial>In 1492 Columbus sailed and failed to find the sea route to India. Vasco da Gama reached Calicut (Kerala) in 1497 to learn that no native called his land India. The British and the Dutch established their East India Companies in 1600 and 1602 in order to trade with Indonesia [Indian Asia]! Back then not even the Europeans thought of the Mughal Empire as India.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(85 85 85 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(85 85 85 1); background-color: initial>This book is first in a series that explains how the Bible created modern India. That fact is as unpalatable to Hindu politicians as to secular historians. They consider the Bible to be discarded childish stories: How could it possibly create build and sustain great nations?</span></p>