This book is not about the fabulous India of legends and traditions; the great civilization of the Hindustan Peninsula appears here as it really was (and continues to exist in the centuries-old traditions of the peoples of India). However, this does not make the image of India any less wonderful: the origins of the ancient civilizations of the Indus River valley and the history of the arrival of the Aryan peoples to the Hindustan Peninsula are full of secrets; The heroes and gods of the inspired epic, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana are still alive in Indian art. There are countless mysteries in the heritage that India left us in the field of religion, astronomy, mathematics, the culture of love relationships...