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Summary: Is there a zero star option?
Review: I am amazed this book was published! It is very poorly written and has many distracting grammer errors. The author appears to believe she is an expert on US and Indian lifestyles. If her comments about India are as inaccurate as those about the US, any reader will be wildly misled. I struggled to finish reading this because I had carried it from Chicago to Delhi, but abandoned it in an airport waiting room immediatly after turning the final page. Fellow travelers will understand why I did not toss it aside sooner, but perhaps nothing to read would have been better than this. With many great books about India available, stay away from this one.
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Summary: An excellent source of information for Indian fellowmen
Review: 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.
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Summary: By and For Macaulayites
Review: Lord Macaulay in 1835 promoted a Britush education policy in India that would create a tier of elite Indians who would be brown in skin but think in English values and look up to the British, i.e. suffer from inferiority complex and be easier to rule.This led to a segment of Indians to buy into the theory of "Aryans" coming to India. Particularly the fair skinned from Kashmir, where the author is from, have this hangup about being seen as being at least partially 'white'. Other than that, the Aryan invasion theory she starts off with has no credibility with serious scholars today. It is utter rubbish and any responsible scholar should do her homework.
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Summary: An entertaining book for the novice on Understanding India
Review: 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.
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