
A History of India
by Stein, Burton; Arnold, David-
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations | p. viii |
List of Maps | p. x |
Series Editor's Preface | p. xi |
Introduction to Burton Stein's A History of India | p. xiv |
Acknowledgements to First Edition | p. xxii |
p. 1 | |
Introduction | p. 7 |
The Physical Setting | p. 8 |
The Social Setting | p. 14 |
Resituating Communities and States | p. 21 |
Historian's Choice | p. 35 |
Ancient India | p. 37 |
Chronology | p. 38 |
Ancient Days | p. 39 |
The Pre-formation of Indian Civilization | p. 39 |
Vedic Culture | p. 46 |
Political and Religious Developments | p. 53 |
Religion in the Later Vedic Period | p. 59 |
The Nature of the Mauryan Kingdom | p. 68 |
Towards the Classical Pattern | p. 75 |
Early Hinduism | p. 79 |
Developments in the South | p. 84 |
The Age of the Early Empires | p. 85 |
The Gupta Classical Pattern | p. 90 |
The Classical Pattern Elaborated and Extended: the South | p. 96 |
Medieval and Early Modern India | p. 103 |
Chronology | p. 104 |
Medieval India | p. 105 |
Introduction | p. 105 |
Medieval Kingdoms | p. 110 |
The Role of the Southern Kingdoms | p. 124 |
The Advent of Islam | p. 129 |
The Indian Development of Islam | p. 138 |
The Deccan and the South | p. 146 |
Vijayanagara | p. 147 |
States and Communities | p. 150 |
Early Modern India | p. 155 |
Introduction | p. 155 |
The Mughal Empire | p. 159 |
The Wars of the Mughal Succession | p. 171 |
The Last Act of the Mughals | p. 179 |
The Maratha Moment | p. 185 |
The Shadow of Europe | p. 193 |
The East India Company | p. 196 |
Introduction | p. 196 |
The Joint Trajectory of Development | p. 201 |
The Company Perpetuates the Past | p. 211 |
The Emergence of a New Order | p. 215 |
Mutiny and Revolt | p. 222 |
Late Company Rule | p. 223 |
Contemporary South Asia | p. 225 |
Chronology | p. 226 |
The Crown Replaces the Company | p. 227 |
The Contemporary State | p. 227 |
After the Mutiny | p. 229 |
The Rule of the Raj | p. 239 |
The Political Economy of the Late Nineteenth Century | p. 247 |
Cultural Change, Education and New Classes | p. 253 |
The Politicization of Class, Caste and Gender | p. 262 |
Towards Freedom | p. 274 |
Two Types of Nationalism | p. 274 |
Early Congress and Its Adversaries | p. 277 |
War, Sacrifice and Mass Political Mobilization | p. 287 |
Imperialism's Paradoxical Enemy | p. 289 |
The First Campaigns | p. 294 |
Between Campaigns | p. 299 |
Conditions for a New Politics | p. 306 |
Gandhi's Triumph | p. 308 |
Civil Disobedience | p. 308 |
The Left in Politics | p. 325 |
The Right Prevails | p. 332 |
War and the Last Act Begins | p. 338 |
The Bitter Victory of Partition | p. 348 |
New States, Old Nations | p. 357 |
Territorial Passage | p. 357 |
The Promises of Independence | p. 358 |
Pakistan in Parallel | p. 368 |
The Green Revolution: Promise of Plenty | p. 376 |
Environmental Problems, Old and New | p. 377 |
The Condition of Women: Broken Promises | p. 384 |
Communal Politics: Shattered Pluralism | p. 388 |
India and the World | p. 393 |
Promises Kept, Promises Broken | p. 396 |
Another India | p. 398 |
The Nehruvian Consensus | p. 399 |
Eroding Consensus | p. 402 |
Failure on the Left | p. 406 |
Hindu Nationalism | p. 409 |
Rise of the Hindu Right | p. 410 |
Economic Liberalization | p. 413 |
The Indian State | p. 417 |
Notes | p. 421 |
Glossary of Non-English Terms | p. 425 |
Further Reading | p. 430 |
Index | p. 435 |
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