INDIA EPUB ED EB
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The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India – from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent's social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East.

India's history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley, regressing to a tribal and pastoral nomadism, and then evolving into a uniquely stratified society. The pattern of inward invasion plus outward migration was established early: from Alexander the Great via the march of Islam and the great Moghuls to the coming of the East India Company and the establishment of the British Raj.

Older, richer and more distinctive than almost any other, India's culture furnishes all that the historian could wish for in the way of continuity and diversity. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent, while sharing a common history and culture, are not now, and never have been, a single unitary state; the book accommodates Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as other embryonic nation states like the Sikh Punjab, Muslim Kashmir and Assam.

In this brilliant new edition, John Keay continues the narrative of India's history – covering events from partition to the present day and examining the very different fortunes of the three successor states: Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Republic of India. Based on the latest research, this is an indispensible history of a country set to be a definitive influence on the future of world economics, politics and culture.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Maps
  6. Charts and Tables
  7. Author’s note to the Second Edition
  8. Introduction
  9. 1: The Harappan World: C3000–1700 BC
  10. 2: Vedic Values: C1700–900 BC
  11. 3: The Epic Age: C900–520 BC
  12. 4: Out of the Myth-Smoke: C520–C320 BC
  13. 5: Gloria Maurya: C320–200 BC
  14. 6: An Age of Paradox: C200 BC–C300 AD
  15. 7: Gupta Gold: C300–500 AD
  16. 8: Lords of the Universe: C500–700
  17. 9: Dharma and Defiance: C700–C900
  18. 10: Natraj, the Rule of the Dance: C950–1180
  19. 11: The Triumph of the Sultans: C1180–1320
  20. 12: Other Indias: 1320–1525
  21. 13: The Making of the Mughal Empire: 1500–1605
  22. 14: Mughal Pomp, Indian Circumstance: 1605–1682
  23. 15: From Taj to Raj: 1682–1750
  24. 16: The British Conquest: 1750–1820
  25. 17: Pax Britannica: 1820–1880
  26. 18: Awake the Nation: 1880–1930
  27. 19: At the Stroke of the Midnight Hour: 1930–1948
  28. 20: Surgical Procedures: 1948–1965
  29. 21: The Spectre of Separatism: 1962–1972
  30. 22: ‘Demockery’: 1972–1984
  31. 23: Midnight’s Grandchildren: 1984–
  32. Bibliography
  33. Index
  34. About the Author
  35. Source Notes
  36. Praise
  37. Also by the Author
  38. About the Publisher