India Book

I believe this book is meant as a summary of India, and that's what it is. Wolpert often refers to people and places without explaining them, so the book is somewhat diificult to follow if you aren't familiar with India, particularly it's political history. The first chapter, which was supposed to be about the geography, was a jumbled mess. After that it got better. I also didn't care for his writing style, which was alternately fanciful and snarky, with an egregious overuse of quotation marks. His flowery metaphors were often vague and unhepful. Perhaps he fancies himself to be a poet. All in all, I wouldn't recommend this book.