<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://functional.cafe/@escape_velocity" class="u-url mention">@<span>escape_velocity</span></a></span> <br />Thanks, this is great.</p><p>1. Yes indeed. The author actually replied to me on Twitter to say that. I guess that's the focus of his new book.</p><p>2. I think this is caught up in the fact that social history is entirely missing. Not like the political history from rulers was accurate either, so these could also have been handled not-at-face-value.</p><p>3. Indeed, but wish it was much more. His Chola book does (he said), and I expect so does Dalrymple's /Golden Road/ (not yet in USA).</p>
