Come With Me to India: On a Wondrous Voyage Through Time

This is an excellent, articulate and compact version of Indian history that is well-written and told in an entertaining way. All books on Indian or South Asian history to date bore the reader with details, dates and countless foreign names many of which are not in chronological order and are left to the reader to sort out. The author of this book does a great job in simplifying the complexity of India for a young and/or inexperienced American audience.My high school students read the chapter on religion and they told me it was the single most interesting reading they have read this semester. If more authors could make history come alive the way Sudha Koul does, more people would fall in love with history and enjoy learning about the world. The author should be credited not only for shortening and making India's history exciting to learn, but for her excellent timeline of Indian history alongside key dates in World History. This book is not for the educated Indian who knows everything or thinks they know it all - I studied Indian history and have found that no historian has been able to write a comprehensive, unbiased, and entertaining book all in one go - all accounts have their special attributes and the uniqueness of this is its simplicity and readability. It is for the young student or person interested in a better understanding of the Indians in their neighborhood - their beliefs, culture, customs and their history. It is also a book for the children of the Indian diaspora who do not get the chance to learn their own cultural history at school. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to learn about India and also enjoy the experience.

I am very suprised and astonished by reading the extremely condecending remarks and reviews made by the previous person on this site. As an Indian student studying here in the US of A, reading 'Come with me to India' only enhanced my previous knowledge of India, which is really what mattered to me. I guess thats really what matters, the contents of the book and not really looking and pin pointing for things as trivial as 'gramatical errors'. And it is quite interesting, because the previous review was full of gramatical errors itself. This book is meant for Indians, with little knowledge and information about their country, their history etc. and according to me fulfilled all criterion of being a well designed and descriptive book on the past and present of the Indian culture.