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Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.

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Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture. Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this change in perception came about is the subject of this book.

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The story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of Frances greatest 19th-century explorer up the mysterious Mekong river, and a portrait of the river and its peoples today.

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An epic narrative history that compares and contrasts the fortunes of all the countries that make up South Asia.

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A description of a scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian subcontinent: William Lambton and George Everest.

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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-continents social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East.