Table of Content
1. South Asian History: An Introduction 2. Modernity and Antiquity: Interpretations of Ancient India 3. Pre-Modern Accommodations of Difference: The Making of Indo-Islamic Cultures 4. The Mughal Empire: State, Economy and Society 5. India Between Empires: Decline or Decentralization 6. The Transition to Colonialism: Resistance and Collaboration 7. The First Century of British Rule, 1757 to 1857: State and Economy 8.Company Raj and Indian Society, 1757 to 1857: reinvention and Reform of'Tradition' 9. Eighteen Fifty-seven: Rebellion, Collaboration and the Transition to Crown Raj 10. Highy Noon of Colonialism, 1858 to 1914: State and Political Economy 11. A Nation in the Making? 'Rational' Reform, 'Religious' revival and Swadeshi Nationalism, 1858 to 1914 12. Colonialism Under Siege: State and Political Economy after World War I 13. Gandhian Nationalism and Mass Politics in the 1920s 14. The Depression Decade: Society, Economics and Politics 15. Nationalism and Colonialism during World War II and its Aftermath: Economic Crisis and Political Confronatation 16. The Partition of India and the Creation of Pakistan 17. Nineteen Forty-seven: Memories and Meanings 18. Post-Colonial South Asia: State and Economy, Society and Politics, 1947-1971 19. Post-Colonial South Asia: State and Economy, Society and Politics, 1971-1997 20. Decolonizing South Asian HIstory: Fiftieth Anniversary Reflections Glossary Select Bibliography and Notes Index
