Srinagar, Nov. 1 -- 'In Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal', the author provides a richly textured analysis of France's seventeenth-century cultural imagination and its multilayered engagement with India. Drawing from literary texts, visual art, and historical correspondence, the book reconstructs a forgotten intellectual history-one shaped not only by merchants and monarchs but by salon conversations, female letter writers, and philosophical travellers. It is a work that challenges the terms of the conventional narrative of East-West encounters by foregrounding the voices and spaces often relegated to the margins of historical discourse. The journey begins in 1932 when the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Morbihan, Brittany commissioned a...