(The) Oxford history of modern India 1740-1975 / by Percival Spear

Includes chronological tables and index.

THE RISE OF THE BRITISH DOMINION 1740-1818: English and French -- The British in Bengal -- Afghans, Mughals and Marathas -- The Maratha polity -- The age of Hastings -- The Company and the State -- Cornwallis -- The South 1780-1801 -- Shore and Wellesley -- Interlude: Burlow and Minto -- Hastings and Hegemony -- COMPLETION AND CONSOLIDATION 1818-58: General: Hastings to Dalhousie -- The political thread: Hastings to Hardinge, 1818-48 -- Foreign policy, 1818-48: Burma and the north-west -- Sind and the Panjab -- Government and people: organisation of power -- The people and the government: the village, the land and trade -- Social policy and cultural contacts -- Dalhousie -- The mutiny -- IMPERIAL INDIA, 1858-1905: Canning and reorganization -- The political thread : Elgin to Elgin -- Foreign and frontier policy 1862-98 -- Economic policy and development, 1858-1939 -- The new India : western influence -- The new India : the Indian response -- The states -- Lord Curzon -- NATIONAL INDIA 1905-47: The political and personal thread, 1905-47 – Edwardian India -- The First World War and the Montford Reforms, 1914-21 -- The Montford Era -- The Genesis of Pakistan -- The 1935 Act and after -- India and the war, 1939-45 -- Independence and partition -- Economic and cultural development -- INDEPENDENT INDIA 1947-75: Introduction -- Nehru's India -- Crisis and consolidation -- Planning and hope -- Difficulty and perplexity -- Post Nehru India -- Interlude and crisis -- Realignment – Crisis, confidence and perplexity