The Biographical Dictionary of Greater India brings between the covers of one book sketches of the men and women who made Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka what (for better or worse) they are today. The volume does not confine itself only to those who were native to South Asia; therefore, along with Gautama Buddha, Asoka, Chandragupta Maurya, Krishnadevaraya, Rammohun Roy, Rani Lakshmibai, Nehru, Tagore and Gandhi it ranges to Alexander the Great, St. Thomas, Vasco da Gama, Clive, Dupleix, Kipling and Mountbatten.



Author Bio: HENRY SCHOLBERG, is a native of India and spent two-thirds of his childhood in Darjeeling. Before retiring from the University of Minnesota he served for twenty years as curator of the Ames Library of South Asia. He has written books on bibliography, history, besides writing poetry and fiction.