Land Of Seven Rivers  (English, Hardcover, Sanyal Sanjeev)

The book received good reviews on flipkart.com. So, I ordered it.

Initially it is more like a book by Romila Thapar, I.e explained geology and then started real history. This technique is followed till the end of Harappan civilization. After that the economist in the author woke up and delivered opinions on historical develoments. The economic view of history is really interesting.

History was explained in a linear fashion till Mughals. From that point, he started on hopping. Author mention...

this book provides us a new angle to look into in our history. historians in colonial time like max muller, vincent smith were not above doubt. sometimes they misinterpreted our ancient texts like vedas, and puranas by mistake or may be knowingly. because our ancient texts were older than the history of christianity. so, there came a controversy over validity of christianity. according to old testament bishop usher calculated that the gensis took place in around 4000 bc. but, in puranas, the ...

Was a good refresher course on history . It was not filled with amazing original insights like say a John Keay, but most of its insights seem to be derived from these very famous books already written. This suspicion i had was confirmed, once i looked at the footnotes he mentions. But still, I think this book is simple to read and serves as a bridged version of all the great books already written about India. An excellent book to start the data mining process of our country.

The book is a simple, interesting read. If you buy this expecting a detailed history of forces/factors that may have affected India's geographical features, you wont find it here. Nevertheless if you just seek to know more about India, interesting snippets of history, informative stories, etc, this is a very good book to pick.
It may be slightly overpriced though, but that shouldn't be a problem to anyone apart from the really financially tight reader.
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This is a wonderful book and has uncovered a number of untouched aspects in India's geography and history. Best thing is Sanjeev does not seem to have any kind of baggage, a typical historian might have. He has analyzed the facts very objectively and all the assumptions have been made on a very sound logic. Also the book is easy to read and divided very judiciously in various sections and readers are less likely to get confused navigating through the book. Anecodotes are also intelligently in...

A FASCINATINGLY FRESH LOOK AT 5000 YEARS OF HISTORY OF A PEOPLE THAT OCCUPY A SUBCONTINENT. WRITTEN WITH A RARE INSIGHT OF A CONTINUITY AND CONTIGUITY THAT HAS GIVEN ITS NAME TO A CIVILISATION. A MUST READ FOR ALL INDIANS AND OTHERS WHO WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO THEY ARE AND WHERE THEY COME FROM. WRITTEN SPECIALLY FOR THE INDIAN DIASPORA OF THE PRESENT GENERATION NOW SPREAD ALL OVER THE WORLD. AFTER READING THIS BOOK BEING INDIAN WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Land of the Seven Rivers'. Every Indian especially one who loves history will love this book. It has given me so many facts about my heritage with great attention to detail. The places mentioned have been clearly enunciated and I hope to visit many of these places one day soon since they've been well referenced. I have also enjoyed gifting this book to many of my good friends.