The Map is the Table of Contents
Twenty books by Shiv Kunal Verma, the military historian who founded Fortress India, read as a map of the country.
Three ways in: by place, on the map; by theme, on the shelves; or by what a book teaches (the four pillars).
The Whole of India
Works that range across the subcontinent rather than settling on one frontier.
The Shelves
Wars
1962, 1965 and Siachen: three campaigns, one continuous argument about how India's frontiers were tested, and how honestly that story has been told.
3 worksMilitary History
Yodha's two illustrated volumes carry India's military story from the Epics to the Uprising of 1857, and on into the twentieth century: a panorama attempted in text before, but rarely in image.
2 worksWildlife
The KaleidoIndia wildlife series (Ghosts in Shadows, Genetic Treasures, South of Vindhyas and The Deep Purple): India's ecological inheritance, photographed on its own terms.
4 worksBiographies
Lives lived at close range to the institutions this site is built around: General V K Singh's Courage and Conviction and Shiv Kunal Verma's own Life of an Industani.
2 worksPhotographic Records
Two books commissioned as records rather than arguments: the official book of the 2007 Military World Games in Hyderabad, and Ocean to Sky, the subcontinent photographed from fighter cockpits at 30,000 feet.
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