India: A History. John Keay

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      INDIA

      A History: From the Earliest Civilisations to the Boom of the Twenty-First Century

      JOHN KEAY

       COPYRIGHT

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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

      John Keay asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780007307753

      Ebook Edition © APRIL 2013 ISBN 9780007382392

      Version: 2014-12-01

       DEDICATION

       For Tara

      CONTENTS

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Maps

Charts and Tables

Author’s note to the Second Edition

Introduction

1 The Harappan World: C3000–1700 BC

2 Vedic Values: C1700–900 BC

3 The Epic Age: C900–520 BC

4 Out of the Myth-Smoke: C520–C320 BC

5 Gloria Maurya: C320–200 BC

6 An Age of Paradox: C200 BC–C300 AD

7 Gupta Gold: C300–500 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

       12 Other Indias: 1320–1525

       13 The Making of the Mughal Empire: 1500–1605

       14 Mughal Pomp, Indian Circumstance: 1605–1682

       15 From Taj to Raj: 1682–1750

       16 The British Conquest: 1750–1820

       17 Pax Britannica: 1820–1880

       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

       22 ‘Demockery’: 1972–1984

       23 Midnight’s Grandchildren: 1984–

       Bibliography

       Index

       About the Author

       Source Notes

       Praise

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

       MAPS

       South Asia – Physical

       South Asia Today