All these take away the authenticity that is vital in a history book. There was no mention of the 1975 emergency or the sikh riots of 1984 in the foreword.

In the foreword, the author mentions that 'the riots of 2002 were the biggest challenge to Indian democracy since independence'. However, it is disappointing that most of the book is a collection of biased opinions (without valid logic o. Review 2: Among the positives, this is one of the few books which talks comprehensively about independent India and presents a good picture about the challenges facing a newly born country immediately after independence.

Here Poonam Dahiya have upper hand on consolidated book on ancient and medieval India with no compromising in content.Review 1: Primarily I felt that the book is biased towards the indian national Congress and some verses revering INDIRA GANDHI.But apart from that the book demands audience with its excellent narration of events happened in the country in first five five decades after independence and especially the turmoil created in the country aftermath the independence is clearly explained including the consolidation of states ,national language of india ,etc. Hence Satish Chandra come up with two new books on medieval India!!! We really respect Satish Chnadra and his efforts but aspirant must not forget about time to output ratio ratio during your preparation. Writer tried to give you everything of Medieval India but cause of book size he couldn’t able to do that. Its because of the noisy nature of this book. After reading this book you feel that you have masters in Medieval India but trust me you will forget and feel confuse after someday. Third Book is Satish Chandra for Medieval India is also well known and best to study medieval history. Writer of this book took charge over the content and we find exaggerated point of views many time. You will remember background of many events but unfortunately you wont get many things for UPSC exam. Jha Book, it is well known book to study ancient India and good story teller. Read this book many times and revise.Ībout D. Plus point of this book is they gave you several questions based on prelim and mains, hence you don’t need to rush for separate question bank. You might find out PDF book on internet but trust us you must need copy of this book. For Ancient and Medieval history there is one stop solution that is Poonam Dahiya book. Since you have too much to read you must not waste your time on many books.

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