A concise history of modern India

Sultans, Mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society

Mughal twilight: the emergence of regional states and the East India Company

The East India Company Raj, 1772-1850

Revolt, the modern state, and colonized subjects, 1848-1885

Civil society, colonial constraints, 1885-1919

The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939

The 1940s: triumph and tragedy

Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950-1989

Democratic India at the turn of the Millennium: prosperity, poverty, power.