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The book takes up the narrative at the time when the Gupta power was in decline and North India was gradually slipping into chaos in the absence of a great central power. The coming to power of the Vardhana dynasty, stemmed the tide and brought back stability and prosperity to the region, perhaps for the last time before the advent of the Islamic invasion.
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Dr Sanu Kainikara is a former fighter pilot of the Indian Air Force and currently a practising Military Strategist and Political Analyst residing in Canberra, Australia. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, the inaugural Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Regional Security, Canberra and a Visiting Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Air Power Studies in New Delhi. He is the author of numerous papers on international politics, national security, and military strategy in reputed global journals; and has also presented papers, on invitation, in several International Conferences around the world. Professor Kainikara is a regular guest lecturer at a number of military command and staff colleges across the world.
Sanu has so far authored 23 books: 13 dealing with national security, military strategy, airpower; three collections of political essays; and seven previous volumes on Indian history with the generic title From Indus to Independence: A Trek through Indian History. This book is Volume VIII in the series that narrates the history of India.
