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| List of illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: History and the Environment | |
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| Early Civilisations of the Northwest | |
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| Prehistory and the Indus civilisation | |
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| Immigration and settlement of the Indo-Aryans | |
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| The Great Ancient Empires | |
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| The rise of the Gangetic culture and the great empires of the east | |
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| Ashoka, the Beloved of the Gods | |
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| The end of the Maurya empire and the northern invaders | |
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| The classical age of the Guptas | |
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| Subjection and alliance: Shakas and Vakatakas | |
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| The rise of south India | |
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| The Regional Kingdoms of Early Medieval India | |
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| The rise and conflicts of regional kingdoms | |
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| Kings, princes and priests: the structure of Hindu realms | |
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| The emergence of regional kingdoms | |
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| Gods, temples and poets: the growth of regional cultures | |
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| India's impact on southeast Asia: causes and consequences | |
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| Religious Communities and Military Feudalism in the late Middle Ages | |
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| The Islamic conquest of northern India and the sultanate of Delhi | |
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| The problems of administrative penetration | |
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| The states of central and southern India in the period of the sultanate of Delhi | |
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| The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Empire | |
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| The great Mughals and their adversaries | |
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| Indian land power and European sea power | |
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| The struggle for supremacy in India | |
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| The Period of Colonial Rule | |
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| Company Bahadur: trader and ruler | |
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| The colonial economy | |
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| The regional impact of British rule | |
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| The pattern of constitutional reform | |
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| The Freedom Movement and the Partition of India | |
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| The Indian freedom movement | |
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| The return to the constitutional arena | |
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| The partition of India | |
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| The Republic | |
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| Internal affairs and political development | |
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| External affairs: global and regional dimensions | |
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| Perspectives | |
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| Glossary of Indian terms | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |