A History of India Book

	List of Illustrations
	List of Maps and Spelling
	Series Editor's Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Note on the Maps
1	Introduction	5
2	Ancient Days	45
	The Pre-formation of Indian Civilization	45
	Vedic Culture	52
	Political and Religious Developments	58
	Religion in the Later Vedic Period	64
	The Nature of the Mauryan Kingdom	73
	Towards the Classical Pattern	79
	Early Hinduism	83
	Developments in the South	89
	The Age of the Early Empires	90
	The Gupta Classical Pattern	95
	The Classical Pattern Elaborated and Extended: the South	100
3	Medieval India	111
	Introduction	111
	Medieval Kingdoms	116
	The Role of the Southern Kingdoms	129
	The Advent of Islam	134
	The Indian Development of Islam	143
	The Deccan and the South	150
	Vijayanagara	152
	States and Communities	155
4	Early Modern India	160
	Introduction	160
	The Mughal Empire	164
	The Wars of the Mughal Succession	176
	The Last Act of the Mughals	184
	The Maratha Moment	189
	The Shadow of Europe	197
5	The East India Company	201
	Introduction	201
	The Joint Trajectory of Development	207
	The Company Perpetuates the Past	216
	The Emergence of a New Order	220
	Mutiny and Revolt	226
	Late Company Rule	227
6	The Crown Replaces the Company	239
	The Contemporary State	239
	After the Mutiny	241
	The Rule of the Raj	250
	The Political Economy of the Late Nineteenth Century	258
	Cultural Change, Education and New Classes	264
	The Politicization of Class, Caste and Gender	273
7	Towards Freedom	284
	Two Types of Nationalism	284
	Early Congress and Its Adversaries	287
	War, Sacrifice and Mass Political Mobilization	297
	Imperialism's Paradoxical Enemy	299
	The First Campaigns	305
	Between Campaigns	310
	Conditions for a New Politics	317
8	Gandhi's Triumph	319
	Civil Disobedience	319
	The Left in Politics	336
	The Right Prevails	343
	War and the Last Act Begins	349
	The Bitter Victory of Partition	358
9	New States, Old Nations	367
	Territorial Passage	367
	The Promises of Independence	368
	Pakistan in Parallel	378
	The Green Revolution: Promise of Plenty	387
	Environmental Problems, Old and New	388
	The Condition of Women: Broken Promises	395
	Communal Politics: Shattered Pluralism	399
	India and the World	403
	Promises Kept, Promises Broken	407
	Glossary of Non-English Terms	409
	Persons	414
	Notes	417
	Burton Stein (1 August 1926 to 26 April 1996)	420
	Index	426