The West hardly knows anything "true" of India; almost everybody looks at it only through a narrow perspective and thus are "incorrect". The History of India i

The West hardly knows anything "true" of India; almost everybody looks at it only through a narrow perspective and thus are "incorrect". The History of India is a multi-branched tree with the main branches being; a) Oral Tradition b) Linguistic Tradition c) Philosophical/Religious Tradition d) Literature/Poetry e) Mythologies f) Historical writings g) Writings by other cultures/civilizations h) Archeology. All of them have to be studied to get an idea of what India was/is. 1) A good book to start with is A.L.Basham's The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims. The Book: https://archive.org/details/TheWonderThatWasIndiaByALBasham_201805 https://archive.org/details/TheWonderThatWasIndiaByALBasham_... The Author : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Llewellyn_Basham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Llewellyn_Basham 2) For a modern idiosyncratic and funny take, see Sam Miller's book A Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes.