![]() ![]() ![]() Working with a set of questions - Did the great flood of Indian legend actually happen? Why did the Buddha walk to Sarnath to give his first sermon? How did the Europeans map India? - Sanyal maps out the changing lay of the land. “Just as geography affects history, history too affects geography.” ![]() “A lot has already been written about wars and battles and dynasty,” he says, as he explores the changing, shifting and transforming geography of India. Sanyal’s new book takes a different approach to history. The book is also a reminder, a ledger of milestones and landmarks in a country steeped in stories. Sanyal writes of a country’s future even as he looks back at her history in In the introduction to his new book, economist and urban theorist Sanjeev Sanyal writes about the ‘extraordinary transformation’ India is undergoing: of mobile phones and satellite televisions, of rising apartment blocks and the expanding map of highways, of economic boom and rapid changes. ![]()
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