India: A History
The first single-volume history of India since the 1950s, combining narrative pace and skill with social, economic and cultural analysis. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East. This edition does not include illustrations.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.Above all, the colonial era is seen in the overall context of Indian history, and the legacy of the 1947 partition is examined from the standpoint of today.
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INDIA
A History: From the Earliest Civilisations to the Boom of the Twenty-First Century
JOHN KEAY
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This updated HarperPress edition published 2010
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2000 Published in paperback by Harper Perennial 2004, reprinted 12 times
Copyright © John Keay 2000 and 2010
Maps and tables by Jillian Luff
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CONTENTS
Author’s note to the Second Edition
1 The Harappan World: C3000–1700 BC
4 Out of the Myth-Smoke: C520–C320 BC
6 An Age of Paradox: C200 BC–C300 AD
8 Lords of the Universe: C500–700
9 Dharma and Defiance: C700–C900
10 Natraj, the Rule of the Dance: C950–1180
11 The Triumph of the Sultans: C1180–1320
13 The Making of the Mughal Empire: 1500–1605
14 Mughal Pomp, Indian Circumstance: 1605–1682
16 The British Conquest: 1750–1820
18 Awake the Nation: 1880–1930
19 At the Stroke of the Midnight Hour: 1930–1948
20 Surgical Procedures: 1948–1965
21 The Spectre of Separatism: 1962–1972
Northern India at the time of the Buddha (C400 BC)
Alexander the Great’s invasion, 327–6 BC
Peninsular trading stations in the first century AD
Western India C150 AD (with Shatavahana cave-sites)
Harsha’s probable empire C640 AD
Chalukyas and Pallavas in the seventh century
India and south-east Asia in the seventh to twelfth centuries
The Arab conquest of Sind in the eighth century
The Kanauj triangle: Rashtrakutas, Palas and Gurjara-Pratiharas
The land of the Shahis C1000 AD
The Ghaznavid empire under Mahmud of Ghazni C1030
The Chola kingdom C1030 and the expeditions of Rajendra I
Avanti/Malwa: the incarnations of a proto-state
Chahamana defeat and Muhammad of Ghor’s conquests 1192–1200
The peninsular incursions of Ala-ud-din and Malik Kafur, 1296–1312
The stillborn states: India in the fifteenth century
The campaigns of Babur, Humayun and Sher Shah
The Bahmanid kingdom and its successor sultanates
Expansion of the Mughal empire, 1530–1707
The Deccan and the south in the reign of Aurangzeb
Successor states of the Mughal empire
European trading stations C1740
The peninsula in the eighteenth century (the Anglo – French and Anglo – Mysore Wars)
The British in Bengal, 1756–65
British India in 1792, after the Third Mysore War;
British India in 1804, after Wellesley’s acquisitions
The Anglo-Maratha Wars 1775–1818
British India in 1820, after the Maratha Wars
British India in 1856, after Dalhousie’s annexations
The north-west in the nineteenth century: British expansion into Panjab, Sind and Afghanistan
The peaks and troughs of dominion
The Mauryas: probable succession 321–181 BC
The imperial Guptas: probable succession
The Chalukyas and the Pallavas: the rival successions
The rise and fall of the Cholas of Tanjore
Avanti/Malwa: the incarnations of a proto-state
The Delhi sultanates. 1: The ‘Slave’ Dynasty, 1206–90
The Delhi sultanates. 2: The Khalji Dynasty, 1290–1320
Muslim conquest to Mughal empire: the dynasties of the Delhi sultanate
The Delhi sultanates. 3: The Tughluq dynasty, 1320–1413
Intermarriage of Great Mughals with the family of Itimad-ud-Daula
The Sikh Gurus: the chosen successors of Guru Nanak
The royal house of Shivaji (Bhonsle Chatrapatis)
Succession of the Peshwas of Pune
Political Succession in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 1947–2009
