The First Spring: The Golden Age of India
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Abraham Eraly
Penguin-Viking,
952 pages, '1299
This narrative covers more than 1,000 years—from the middle of the first millennium BC, to the middle of the first millennium AD—when India was a prosperous and marvellously creative civilisation. From
the daring intellectual adventurism of the first spring to the winter of corruption and cultural hibernation, this book tells the story of classical Indian civilisation.
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