Contents: Prologue TERRITORY, GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE LANGUAGE & LITERATURE HISTORY ANCIENT ART AND ARCHITECTURE ETHICS, THOUGHT AND RELIGION CHRONOLOGY of INDIA SELECT SITES India - beautiful, subtle, magnificent, joyful, moving, thrilling, captivating, sweet, generous, touching, grandiose, tender, spiritual, fierce, humble, proud, profound and diverse, all this and much more; truly, a great number of splendid qualifiers may be applied to such a wonderful country and, although some may appear contradictory or antonymous, they actually describe its reality and how they are absorbed by the feeling, sensations and perceptions of those who visit her, learns about her, savors her and falls in love with her.