books.google.com - Descriptions of India are often woefully cliched. Foreigners may preserve old ideas of the exotic East, or reflect the preoccupations of Western media, or view India as a country of violence and disaster. Yet many Indians see their homeland as a modern industrial power, the world's largest democracy,...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_History_of_India.html?id=DAwmUphO6eAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-share“The” History of India