A brief story of India. Zubzhitsky J.

From medicine to mathematics, from philosophy to astronomy, from literature to music, from Buddhism to Bollywood - for five millennia India played a noticeable role in the Asian region and around the world. At the same time, India had the ability to adopt and absorb foreign ideas, which Javaharlal Ner compared with the Palimpsest - an ancient manuscript, which was rewritten many times without removing the previous layer completely.

In the book of a prominent specialist in Asia, John Zubzhitsky briefly and capaciously generalized complex and unlike each other stages of Indian history