India: A History. John Keay

Harappan world C1900 BC

       Northern India at the time of the Buddha (C400 BC)

       Alexander the Great’s invasion, 327–6 BC

       India under Ashoka

       The Karakoram route

       Peninsular trading stations in the first century AD

       Western India C150 AD (with Shatavahana cave-sites)

       Gupta conquests

       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

       Eastern India C1200

       The peninsular incursions of Ala-ud-din and Malik Kafur, 1296–1312

       Delhi old and new

       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

       Rajasthan under the Mughals

       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

       Northern India during the Great Rebellion 1857–8

       The partition of the Panjab, 1947

       CHARTS AND TABLES

       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

       The Great Mughals

       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)

       The later Mughals

       Succession of the Peshwas of Pune

       British governors-general

       British viceroys

       Countdown to Independence