(A) History of India / by Burton Stein

Includes glossary, notes and index.

PART I - INTRODUCTION -- The physical setting -- The social setting – Resituating communities and states – Historian’s choice -- PART II - ANCIENT INDIA : Ancient Days -- The pre-formation of Indian civilization -- Vedic culture -- Political and religious developments -- Religion in the later Vedic period -- The nature of the Mauryan Kingdom -- Towards the classical pattern -- Early Hinduism -- Developments in the south -- The age of early Empires -- The Gupta classical pattern -- The classical pattern elaborated and extended : the south -- PART III - MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN INDIA : Medieval India -- Introduction -- Medieval Kingdoms -- The role of the southern kingdoms -- The advent of Islam -- The Indian development of Islam -- The Deccan and the south -- Vijayanagara -- States and communities -- Early modern India -- Introduction -- The Mughal Empire -- The wars of the Mughal succession -- The last act of the Mughals -- The Maratha movement -- The shadow of Europe -- The East India Company -- Introduction -- The joint trajectory of development -- The company perpetuates the past -- The emergence of a new order -- Mutiny and revolt -- Late Company Rule -- PART IV - CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA : The crown replaces the Company -- The contemporary state -- After the mutiny -- The rule of the Raj -- The political economy of the late 19th century -- Cultural change, education and new classes -- The politicization of class, caste and gender -- Towards freedom -- Two types of Nationalism – Early Congress and its adversaries – War, sacrifice and mass political mobilization – Imperialism’s paradoxical enemy -- The first campaigns -- Between campaigns -- Conditions for a new politics -- Gandhi's triumph -- Civil disobedience -- The left in politics -- The right prevails -- War and the last act begins -- The bitter victory of partition -- New states, old Nations -- Territorial passage -- The promises of Independence -- Pakistan in parallel -- The Green Revolution : promise of plenty -- Environmental problems, old and new -- The condition of women : broken promises -- Communal politics : shattered pluralism -- India and the world -- Promises kept, promises broken