The title of this book is ho-hum: no female, no chauvinist, no pigs. But open it, and out folds a map, challenging one's teenage-held notions of geography from contour-map class, just before chapter 13. Six page-flips ahead, out springs another surprise, challenging some teenage-held notions of history from Mughal-map class. Evidently, this book is not for anyone constrained by approval-stamped text books, so gleefully does it shrug off conventional knowledge. But then, that's what serves to converge interest in the first place. That's also what explains the rarity of such carefully cartographed publications. This book's for the seasoned leader as much as the seasoned historian: after all, they're both aware that what takes two minutes saying could happily take two decades coming together.
