PILGRIM NATION-HB

Before nationalists and
patriots, before colonizers and invaders, before emperors and kings, India
was woven together by pilgrim paths. Seekers and sages travelled north and
south, east and west, across mountains and along rivers, ignoring artificial
boundaries, seeking and finding gods. Renowned mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik
takes us on an insightful journey to thirty-two holy sites where ancient and
modern deities unravel the complex and layered history, geography, and
imagination of the land once known as ?land of the Indian blackberry?
(Jambudvipa), ?land of rivers? (Sindhusthala in Sanskrit, or Hindustan in
Persian), ?expanse of King Bharata? (Bharatvarsha, or Bharatkhanda), and even
?abode of joy? (Sukhavati to the Chinese).