A concise history of modern India

1. Sultans, Mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society

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

3. The East India Company Raj, 1772-1850

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

5. Civil society, colonial constraints, 1885-1919

6. The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939

7. The 1940s: triumph and tragedy

8. Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950-1989

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