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The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India – from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East.
India’s history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley, regressing to a tribal and pastoral nomadism, and then evolving into a uniquely stratified society. The pattern of inward invasion plus outward migration was established early: from Alexander the Great via the march of Islam and the great Moghuls to the coming of the East India Company and the establishment of the British Raj.
Older, richer and more distinctive than almost any other, India’s culture furnishes all that the historian could wish for in the way of continuity and diversity. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent, while sharing a common history and culture, are not now, and never have been, a single unitary state; the book accommodates Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as other embryonic nation states like the Sikh Punjab, Muslim Kashmir and Assam.
In this brilliant new edition, John Keay continues the narrative of India’s history – covering events from partition to the present day and examining the very different fortunes of the three successor states: Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Republic of India. Based on the latest research, this is an indispensible history of a country set to be a definitive influence on the future of world economics, politics and culture.

Масштабная последовательная история Китая с древних времен до конца XX века, рассказ о легендарных Пяти императорах, мифическом царстве Ся и доимперских государствах Шан и Чжоу, об археологических находках, относящихся к бронзовому и железному векам, о периоде Сражающихся царств… Все самое главное — о влиянии Конфуция, об объединении Китая Первым императором Цинь…

Индия – уникальная страна, подарившая человечеству такие религии, как индуизм, буддизм, джайнизм и сикхизм, высокое искусство и литературу, уникальное зодчество, множество философских учений и, конечно, покорившие западный мир йога, карри и болливудские фильмы. «Индия – колыбель человеческой расы, колыбель человеческой речи, мать истории, бабушка легенды и…

Индия - страна, подарившая человечеству одну из основных мировых религии, высокое искусство и литературу, уникальное зодчество, множество философских учений... Страна, пережившая множество нашествий, однако век за веком сохранявшая самобытность и становившаяся только сильнее. "Жемчужина короны Британской империи" XIX века. Родина Тагора, Ганди и Неру. И наконец,…

Despite China's influence on the world stage, many of us are ignorant of the incredible history of this vast, complex country. Yet it is this rich past - of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and unsuspected invention - that defines and explains the modern superpower.
From Confucius to Mao, and from the dawn of legend through the succession of dynasties to the clamour of revolution and the slick capitalism of today John Keay offers a compelling account of the world's largest and least understood nation. Informed by the latest research, enlivened by anecdote and enriched by provocative comparisons, the narrative spans three thousand years of extraordinary achievement and covers every region of China - from the great urban centres to the remotest outposts. Authoritative, yet questioning, this is the definitive and indispensable account of a country set to play a major part in our future.

During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British Empire. In a tapestry ranging from Southern Africa to north-west America, and from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of Victoria, bizarre locations and roguish personality abound. From Bombay to Singapore and Hong Kong the political geography of today is, in some respects, the result of the Company. This book looks at the history of the East India Company.