Table of Contents

Maps:
Preface:
1. The Ecological Setting
2. Indus Culture (ca. 2500-1600 B.C.)
3. The Aryan Age (ca. 1500-1000 B.C.)
4. North Indian Conquest and Unification (ca. 1000-450 B.C.)
5. India's First Imperial Unification (326-184 B.C.)
6. Political Fragmentation and Economic and Cultural Enrichment (ca. 184 B.C.-A.D. 320)
7. The Classical Age (A.D. 320-ca. 700)
8. The Impact of Islam (ca. 711-1556)
9. Mughal Imperial Unification (1556-1605)
10. Western Europe's Vanguard (1498-1669)
11. Great Mughal Glory (1605-1707)
12. Twilight of the Mughal Empire (1707-64)
13. John Company Raj (1765-93)
14. The New Mughals (1793-1848)
15. Unification, Modernization, and Revolt (1848-58)
16. Crown Rule--A New Order (1858-77)
17. Indian Nationalism--The First Movement (1885-1905)
18. The Machine Solidifies (1885-1905)
19. Revolt, Repression, and Reform (1905-12)
20. The Impact of World War One (1914-19)
21. Toward Independence (1920-39)
22. The Impact of World War Two (1939-46)
23. The Nehru Era (1947-64)
24. From Collective Leadership to Indira Raj (1964-77)
25. From Janata Raj to Indira Gandhi's Assassination (1977-84)
26. Rajiv Gandhi's Raj (1984-91)
27. Opening India's Economy to Globalization (1991-99)
28. Escalating Indo-Pak Conflict and Terror (1999-2006)
29. India Today (2007-08)
Bibliography:
Glossary:
Index:

About the Author

Stanley Wolpert is Professor of History Emeritus at UCLA. He is author of Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India (OUP, 2006), India, Third Edition (2005), Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi (OUP, 2002), Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny (OUP, 1996), Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan (OUP, 1993), Jinnah of Pakistan (OUP, 1984), and Roots of Confrontation in South
Asia (OUP, 1982).