The Story of India for Children

Contents: 1. Pots and pans tell a story. 2. Surprises in the mound. 3. Visitors from across the mountains. 4. Rama and Sita. 5. The Pandavas and the Kauravas. 6. Kindness to all. 7. The prince who gave up his throne. 8. Porus and Alexander. 9. Chandragupta and Chanakya. 10. The royal monk. 11. The empire breaks up. 12. The Satavahanas. 13. The emperor who played the Veena. 14. Vikramaditya. 15. Herbal remedies and plastic surgery. 16. Terror strikes. 17. The King who gave away his riches. 18. Kings of the south. 19. Holy men of the south. 20. The valiant Rajputs. 21. Mahmud of Ghazni. 22. Delhi becomes the capital. 23. Living together. 24. The Bhaktas. 25. Many Kingdoms. 26. Babar. 27. A King on the run. 28. A King at thirteen. 29. A scholar King. 30. The emperor who built the Taj. 31. The greatest Mughal. 32. The fall of the empire. 33. Shivaji. 34. The Marathas won\'t give up. 35. Traders from Europe. 36. Traders want to rule. 37. The tiger of Mysore. 38. British power grows. 39. The Sikhs. 40. Discontent explodes into revolt. 41. The Brave Rani of Jhansi. 42. India awakens. 43. Divide and rule. 44. Meeting force with force. 45. Gandhiji leads. 46. Complete Independence. 47. Early troubles. 48. Circles of friendship. 49. The wars India had to fight. 50. The best is yet to come.

"Brought alive in these 200 luminous pages is over 5,000 years of India\'s glorious and fascinating history.

"This is history telling par excellence-clear, uncomplicated, concise, lively, sensitive and absorbing; well complemented by illustrations that are brilliant, dramatic, realistic, expressive and well researched.

"Imaginative selection and arrangement of episodes preserve the ongoing interest as in a serial, providing a built-in continuity to the whole story.

"This is neither a text book nor a reference book.

"This is one book every child will want to see and read."