Before nationalists and\n patriots, before colonizers and invaders, before emperors and kings, India\n was woven together by pilgrim paths. Seekers and sages travelled north and\n south, east and west, across mountains and along rivers, ignoring artificial\n boundaries, seeking and finding gods. Renowned mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik\n takes us on an insightful journey to thirty-two holy sites where ancient and\n modern deities unravel the complex and layered history, geography, and\n imagination of the land once known as ?land of the Indian blackberry?\n (Jambudvipa), ?land of rivers? (Sindhusthala in Sanskrit, or Hindustan in\n Persian), ?expanse of King Bharata? (Bharatvarsha, or Bharatkhanda), and even\n ?abode of joy? (Sukhavati to the Chinese).