Max Stoffel-Rosales’s Reviews > A History of India > Status Update

One of the more strange (and irritating) parts of the authors’ style is that they insist on writing AD after every year, as if the reader, just now reading about Arab conquests in Asia, were going to just snap back to the Iron Age unless told otherwise.

“Say, Johnny, did you know that the Portuguese were trading horses with the Indians in the second f*cking millennium BC? Who knew?!”