Heritage Holidays in India, winner of the National Tourism Award 2013-14, is a tourist’s guide to India’s immense heritage. It brings to the traveler, and the reader, India’s compelling and resplendent past. The book takes you on the route to the famous ruins, to forts and palaces, to the stately symbols of power and to ancient temples, towns and cities; but also to the brilliant lives and secrets of history’s astounding characters and to the traditions that have survived the march of time. The book is conceived such that history comes to you not as a soporific litany but a spicy treat; and makes you experience the country’s complex past as it lives in the present.