A Short History of India

Contents: 1. The land and the people. 2. The beginnings of Indian history. 3. The Hindu way of life. 4. The early period of Hindu supremacy: a general view. 5. The rise of Buddhism and Jainism. 6. The early history of the Indus plain. 7. The Maurya empire: Chandragupta. 8. The Maurya empire: Asoka. 9. The second century B.C. 10. The Greeks in the Punjab. 11. The Sakas and Pahlavas. 12. Early communications by sea. 13. The Kushan power. 14. The Gupta empire. 15. The white huns. 16. Harsha of Kanauj. 17. From Harsha to Mahmud. 18. India in the Tenth century. 19. Foreign contacts. 20. The advent of the Turks. 21. The Turks in Delhi. 22. The Turkish Kings. 23. Islam in Southern India. 24. The fifteenth century. 25. The results of Turkish rule. 26. The coming of the Portuguese. 27. The Mogul conquest. 28. Akbar’s administration note on official designations. 30. Jahangir. 31. Shah Jahan. 32. Aurangzeb. 33. The disintegration of the Mogul empire. 34. The work of clive. 35. India in the eighteenth century. 36. Warren hastings as administrator. 37. Warren hastings as diplomatist. 38. From Cornwallis to Wellesley. 39. From Wellesley to Bentinck. 40. Internal changes, 1793-1835. 41. The North-West frontier and the Punjab 1836-1856. 42. Dalhousie’s administration. 43. The mutiny and its consequences. 44. Economic changes, 1860-1880. 45. Cultural developments, 1860-1880. 46. The frontiers, and finance, 1860-1880. 47. General history, 1880-1905. 48. The rise of politics. 49. Unrest and reforms, 1906-1914. 50. The results of the first world war. 51. India after the first War, 1919-1943: external relations. 52. Constitutional questions: first phase, 1919-1935. 53. Constitutional questions: second phase, 1935-1942. 54. Defence and finance. 55. Economic developments. 56. Social progress. Index.