(A) History of India / by N. K. Sinha and Nisith R. Ray

Includes bibliography and index.

ANCIENT INDIA : Introduction -- Prehistoric age and the Vedic Period -- The age of the Buddha -- The first Magadhan Empire -- Post-Mauryan rule : period of foreign invasions -- The Deccan kingdoms -- The second Magadhan Empire -- The post Gupta age -- Kingdoms in the north and the south till the advent of Muslim power -- Society and polity -- The arts : architecture, sculpture and painting -- Indian culture abroad -- THE ADVENT OF ISLAM : Rise and growth of Muslim power -- The bid for imperialism : the climax -- Decline and fall of the Sultanate -- Succession states in the North -- Kingdoms in the South -- Sultanate in retrospect -- Mughal India and modern India -- Afghan Mughal contest for Empire -- Akbar conquests -- The climax of the Mughal Empire -- Aurangzeb -- The Mughal Empire : a general survey -- Fall of the Mughal Empire -- The coming of the Europeans -- British ascendancy in Bengal and Oudh -- Revival of the Marathas and rise of Mysore -- Growth of British administration (1772-93) -- Fall of Mysore and decline of the Marathas (1786-1805) -- Wars and conquest (1805-1818) -- Wars and annexations (1818-1856) -- Constitutional legislation - charter acts - other changes -- The mutiny and the revolt of 1857 -- Foreign relations (1858-1905) -- Constitutional and administrative and economic set up (1858-1905) -- New awakening in India -- India's Freedom Movement - end of the British Indian Empire -- The progression of events (1947-71)