The Buddha and the Sahibs: The men who discovered India's lost religion

The Buddha and the Sahibs: The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion by Charles Allen.

For nearly 1,000 years, from the destruction of temples and monasteries by Muslim invaders in the 11th and 12th centuries, followed by Hinduism's increasing power, Buddhism vanished from the country of its origin. Though hugely influential throughout Asia, the religion was forgotten in India.

This is the story of the men from the British Raj who rediscovered the history of the Buddha and his teachings an...