![]() ![]() ![]() The author suggests that what we call the Vedic times, when the Vedas were being documented, are not just speculative stories, and there is enough to suggest that it might have something to do with the Harappans. Archaeological findings of the Harappan ages, that tell us of communities that had a fairly ordered supervised existence. The Sapta-Sindhu region, communities that sprung up around the course of the Saraswati river slow tectonic changes that nudged the country we know as India, to its current position, thanks to a drifting of continents, and slowly blocked paths of rivers like Saraswati, that essentially faded away underground. One was all about dates, wars, dealing with duplicate names, and by-hearting what they did when they were not fighting the other was all about latitudes, longitudes, climates, mountains, origins of rivers, and oceans, without specifying continuities and human linkages.īut the complete title of this book, ie " Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography" intrigued me.Īnd it turns out, that this is really a History/Geography of India, as if the people mattered. When I went to school in the late 50's and sixties, History and Geography, bundled as "Social Studies" was never my favourite subject. I received a copy of " Land of the Seven Rivers " Penguin India (12 November 2012) by Sanjeev Sanyal for review, from Team Think WhyNot. ![]()
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