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This new edition of Burton Stein's classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present.The book offers a comprehensive account of Indian history. It also links contemporary issues--including poverty, religious nationalism, and the role of women--to India's rich and varied history and explores the tensions throughout Indian history between local communities and state, cultures and politics, and the country and the ... MORE

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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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At the time of his death Burton Stein was Professorial Research Associate in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He had previously held professorships at the universities of Minnesota and Hawaii. His publications included Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India (1980) and Thomas Munro: The Origins of the Colonial State and his Vision of Empire (1989). David Arnold is Professor of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick. His publications include The Problem of Nature (Blackwell, 1996) and Gandhi (2001).

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