When untrained European travellers wrote about India 400-500 years ago, they accidentally preserved something professional historians with imperial agendas would later erase — authentic eyewitness testimony.Author Amit Agarwal presents his book Crossing Continents, which surveys European travellers from Italy, France, Britain, Germany, Russia — and eventually women — who came to India across several centuries and recorded what they actually saw. Unlike Mughal court historians writing to flatter patrons, or British administrators writing to justify colonialism,...

Bharat has faced Hindu Muslim Binary since last many centuries. It is about time the History is discussed unabashedly to nullify the narratives that have been propagated by some Historians. Amit Agarwal's deep research brings forth lesser known chapters of History. The resistance..