Regions
Five stretches of the country, each with its own shelf. The map is the quicker way in; this is the same thing as a list.
The Northeast
Sikkim, North Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura and Mizoram — a region that remains, in Shiv Kunal Verma's words, a virtual blank on the map for most Indians. The Northeast Trilogy, Assam Rifles and Life and Culture in Northeast India were built to change that.
7 worksArunachal Pradesh
The easternmost stretch of the Great Himalayan Wall, divided here as the Trilogy divides it — Western, Central and Eastern Arunachal — from the glaciers of the upper reaches to the tribal belts of the middle zone and the Theravada Buddhist and Hindu foothills.
5 worksLadakh & Siachen
The high-altitude frontier where the Great Game of the nineteenth century still shapes the map — Jammu, Kashmir, Zanskar and Ladakh, and the glacier at the world's highest battlefield.
2 worksThe Western Frontier
The 1965 arc — from the Rann of Kutch through Kashmir to the plains of Punjab — where India and Pakistan fought a war that ended in stalemate after opening on multiple fronts at once.
1 worksPeninsular India
South of the Vindhyas — Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and the wildlife and heritage of the peninsula, covered with the same ground-level attention as the frontier books.
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