A History of India.

A HISTORY OF INDIA, Second Edition -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- MAPS -- SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION TO BURTON STEIN'S A HISTORY OF INDIA -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO FIRST EDITION -- PART I -- 1: INTRODUCTION -- THE PHYSICAL SETTING -- THE SOCIAL SETTING -- RESITUATING COMMUNITIES AND STATES -- HISTORIAN'S CHOICE -- PART II: Ancient India -- CHRONOLOGY OF PART II -- 2: 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 THE EARLY EMPIRES -- THE GUPTA CLASSICAL PATTERN -- THE CLASSICAL PATTERN ELABORATED AND EXTENDED: THE SOUTH -- PART III: Medieval and Early Modern India -- CHRONOLOGY OF PART III -- 3: 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 -- 4: EARLY MODERN INDIA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE MUGHAL EMPIRE -- THE WARS OF THE MUGHAL SUCCESSION -- THE LAST ACT OF THE MUGHALS -- THE MARATHA MOMENT -- THE SHADOW OF EUROPE -- 5: 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 -- CHRONOLOGY OF PART IV -- 6: THE CROWN REPLACES THE COMPANY -- THE CONTEMPORARY STATE -- AFTER THE MUTINY -- THE RULE OF THE RAJ -- THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- CULTURAL CHANGE, EDUCATION AND NEW CLASSES -- THE POLITICIZATION OF CLASS, CASTE AND GENDER -- 7: 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 -- 8: GANDHI'S TRIUMPH -- CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE -- THE LEFT IN POLITICS -- THE RIGHT PREVAILS -- WAR AND THE LAST ACT BEGINS -- THE BITTER VICTORY OF PARTITION -- 9: 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 -- 10: ANOTHER INDIA -- THE NEHRUVIAN CONSENSUS -- ERODING CONSENSUS -- FAILURE ON THE LEFT -- HINDU NATIONALISM -- RISE OF THE HINDU RIGHT -- ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION -- THE INDIAN STATE -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY OF NON-ENGLISH TERMS -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX.

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