A concise history of India

Sultans, Mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society; Mughal twilight: the mergence 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, reform, desillusionment, division, 1919-1939; The 1940s: triumph and tragedy; Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950-1989; Democratic India in the nineties: coalitions, class, community, consumers, and conflict.