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This is a compact synthesis presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present. It remains the definitive text on the nation. This is a thoroughly revised new edition, containing new research, preface and index.

Written over five months when Jawaharlal Nehru was imprisoned in the Ahmadnagar Fort, "The Discovery of India" has acquired the status of a classic since it was first published in 1946. In this work of prodigious scope and scholarship, one of the greatest figures of Indian histo…