History of India. Exclusive gift book in leather binding.

Indian civilization is five thousand years old, but Indian states appeared on the political map of the world only in 1947. India is the cradle of many religions. Buddhism was born here. Half a billion people on the planet profess some form of Buddhism, but in India there are only a few million followers of this faith, and almost all of them live on the very edge of the country — in the Himalayas. India was home to a third of all Muslims in the world until 1947. They still live here today, but in different states, which were a single entity some three quarters of a century ago. Modern Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, almost 200 million Muslims live in each of these countries today. There is a place for representatives of various religions in Indian civilization — from Jains and Sikhs to Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians. Many states of South Asia were born after the tragic collapse of the once united and great India. Almost 2 billion people in the world today speak hundreds of different languages of a great civilization and understand each other perfectly. This is probably the most amazing, large and controversial civilization on the planet, which is written about in the book presented to the reader.