List of illustrations | p. vii |
Preface | p. viii |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Introduction: History and the Environment | p. xii |
Early Civilisations of the Northwest | p. 1 |
Prehistory and the Indus civilisation | p. 1 |
Immigration and settlement of the Indo-Aryans | p. 12 |
The Great Ancient Empires | p. 26 |
The rise of the Gangetic culture and the great empires of the east | p. 26 |
Ashoka, the Beloved of the Gods | p. 38 |
The end of the Maurya empire and the northern invaders | p. 43 |
The classical age of the Guptas | p. 54 |
Subjection and alliance: Shakas and Vakatakas | p. 58 |
The rise of south India | p. 63 |
The Regional Kingdoms of Early Medieval India | p. 72 |
The rise and conflicts of regional kingdoms | p. 72 |
Kings, princes and priests: the structure of Hindu realms | p. 86 |
The emergence of regional kingdoms | p. 88 |
Gods, temples and poets: the growth of regional cultures | p. 96 |
India's impact on southeast Asia: causes and consequences | p. 106 |
Religious Communities and Military Feudalism in the late Middle Ages | p. 113 |
The Islamic conquest of northern India and the sultanate of Delhi | p. 113 |
The problems of administrative penetration | p. 125 |
The states of central and southern India in the period of the sultanate of Delhi | p. 127 |
The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Empire | p. 139 |
The great Mughals and their adversaries | p. 139 |
Indian land power and European sea power | p. 155 |
The struggle for supremacy in India | p. 165 |
The Period of Colonial Rule | p. 178 |
Company Bahadur: trader and ruler | p. 178 |
The colonial economy | p. 190 |
The regional impact of British rule | p. 194 |
The pattern of constitutional reform | p. 207 |
The Freedom Movement and the Partition of India | p. 211 |
The Indian freedom movement | p. 211 |
The return to the constitutional arena | p. 221 |
The partition of India | p. 231 |
The Republic | p. 242 |
Internal affairs and political development | p. 242 |
External affairs: global and regional dimensions | p. 269 |
Perspectives | p. 287 |
Glossary of Indian terms | p. 289 |
Chronology | p. 293 |
Bibliography | p. 301 |
Index | p. 320 |
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