For a person of European culture, India is a land of miracles and mysteries, the ancestral home of the European ethnic group, the source of great wisdom, blessed Shambhala, embodied in the whole subcontinent. India is invariably mysterious and magnetic; in this very name, as if an incredible innermost meaning is hidden. The history of India, so long and so rich in amazing events, fully corresponds to the romantic image that this country is endowed with.