topics: |  british-india | history

The original title makes the objectives clearer -  "India Discovered: The
Achievement of the British Raj".  The blurb goes:

    Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history
    and less culture. Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a
    classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and
    continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is
    the subject of this fascinating book.

The book traces the various Englishmen who discovered the culture of
India, by discovering temple complexes like Khajuraho or the Mohenjo-Daro
civilization.  Nonetheless, it is an interesting and well-researched story
of how these aspects of Indian culture came to be accepted in Western
knowledge owing to the passion and perserverance of these Indophiles.