ANCIENT INDIA : LAND OF MYSTERY BY THE EDITORS OF TIME-LIFE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)

This book deals with the birth and growth of civilisation in India from the ancient Harappan fired-brick cities of the Indus river valley, through the later Ganges valley Mauryan Empire of the great Ashoka, to the Gupta Empire of the classical period. There is a final photographic essay on the wonderful ruins of the southern Hindu city of Vijayanagara, sacked in the mid sixteenth century.