The book is comprehensive, analytical and critical account of modern Indian history beginning with the foundation of the East India Company and going upto the publication of the White Paper of 1933. The Indian readers may not agree with all the views expressed in the book but would still find it highly interesting and useful. The book would be found of immense use by students, teachers and researchers of Indian history.
The Legacy of India provides insights into the vast diversity of India. It contains brilliant essays by both foreign and Indian thinkers like H G Rawlinson, Dr S Radha Krishnan and Minoo Masani on Indian language and literature, art, architecture and archaeology, music, science and philosophy and religion. It also contains an illuminating essay on Indo-British civilization. The contribution made to the legacy of India by the British people may prove to be ...