WAR GAMES – The Indian Who Succeeded Alexander The Great

B Rachana Appachoo grew up as an Air Force brat, studying across India wherever her father was posted, and pursued graduate studies in Anthropology at Purdue, USA.

A historian’s curiosity about warfare, a missile man father, and an ex-model sister combine to make her one of India’s most distinctive voices in historical fiction.

In 521 BC, an Indian satrapy paid 360 talents of gold dust worth $505 million today to Darius I’s Persian Empire.

When Alexander the Great brought that empire crashing down in 334–331 BC, the stage was set for India’s own great rise.

Two years after Alexander’s death, in 321 BC, Chandragupta Maurya burst onto history’s stage, freeing India’s Northwest and founding a dynasty that would reshape the ancient world. A sweeping, meticulously researched historical epic.