India was always associated at most habitants of Europe with something mystic and even fairy-tale, so led from times of Alexander Macedonian, so there was business and in later epochs - geographical opening or Napoleon's wars. The century of XIX a question heaved up on a shield about прародине of ариев - heroes of древнеиндийских stories of Махабхарата and Рамаяна, that, as science proved, were the forefathers of all indo-european people. Well and the lovers of historical riddles during many decades were worried by the fates of the most famous jewels in histories of humanity, the motherland of that was all the same India. Our book intended for the widest circle of readers tells about all of it.