# The People of the Indus **Author:** Nikhil Gulati **Date Read:** 2022/11/12 **Rating:** 5/5 **Bookshelves:** ## My Review What a wonderful way to communicate hundreds of years of the Indus people’s history- at least what we can know of it. The graphic novel style is wonderfully adapted although some sections are a bit more wordy than others. Involvement of Kenoyer, a historian has helped Gulati to integrate a fair bit of tight referencing, nuance and has also enabled communicating the multiple possible ways in which we can understand the Indus history, especially its relationship with the Vedic texts. The divergence between what linguistic analysis tells us and what archaeological approach tells us is nicely presented. Interspersed here and there are possible reconstructions of a daily Indus family along with rich sketches of excavated materials that I guess are faithfully illustrated. The book is a gentle but precise introduction to Indus history and could easily be either a primer for those who are not interested in academic work/wordy books but also for those who wish tin use it as a springboard to dive deeper into this subject.