Professional Assessments
Vyjayanti Raghavan
324 by Amar Nath Ram Manohar Books,New Delhi, 2015, 324 pp., 895
October 2015, volume 39, No 10

Thanks, perhaps to the Himalayas, India has largely had a westwards ori-entation. Or to be a bit more accurate, the West has always looked towards India, from the time of Alexander the Great. Neither statement is fully true but it does tell us how India’s links with the East have never been quite as deep as with the region to the West of India. Historically the only link that India had with the East was through Buddhism. In a large measure, conquest has been the reason for this orientation. Countries to the East of India have never conquered India; countries to the West have, often.

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