{"title":"Comprehensive Reference","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore comprehensive reference works on Indian history, including broad surveys, detailed historical overviews, and resources covering multiple periods, regions, and themes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1122-the-oxford-history-of-india","title":"The Oxford History of India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Vincent A Smith\u003cbr\u003ePercival Spear\/\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2004\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 945\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195612973\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its first publication, Vincent Smith's standard textbook on Indian history has been periodically revised, most comprehensively when Percival Spear edited the third edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this 4th edition, Spear , in a section entitled ' Independent India', carries on the account  from 1947, the closing year of the 3rd edition, upto the declaration of Emergency in 1975.  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Chandragupta Maurya, the first historical Emperor of India, and his institutions; Bindusara\u003cbr\u003e2.   Asoka Maurya and his institutions; diffusion of Buddhism; end of the Maurya dynasty; the successors of the Mauryas\u003cbr\u003e3.   The Indo-Greeck and other foreign dynasties of north-western India : the Kushans or Indo-Scythians; Greek influence; foreign commerce; beginning of Chola history\u003cbr\u003e4.   The Gupta period; a golden age; literature, art and science; Hindu renaissance; the Huns; King Harsha; the Chalukyas; disorder in northern India\u003cbr\u003e5.   Indian Influence in South-east Asia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK III : THE MEDIEVAL HINDU KINGDOMS FROM THE DEATH OF HARSHA IN A.D. 647 TO THE MUSLIM CONQUEST\u003cbr\u003e1.   The transitional period; Rajputs; the Himalayan kingdoms and their relations with Tibet and china\u003cbr\u003e2.   The northern and western kingdoms of the plains\u003cbr\u003e3.   The Kingdoms of the Peninsula :\u003cbr\u003e     ò   The Deccan proper and Mysore\u003cbr\u003e     ò   The Tamil powers of the Far South\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II\u003cbr\u003eINDIA IN THE MUSLIM PERIOD\u003cbr\u003eBOOK IV : THE Muslim powers of northern India\u003cbr\u003e1.   The rise of the Muslim power in India and the Sultanate of Delhi, A.D. 1175-1290\u003cbr\u003e2.   The Sultnate of Delhi continued; A.D. 1290 to 1340; the khilji and Tughluq dynasties\u003cbr\u003e3.   The decline and fall of the Sultanate of Delhi, A.D. 1340-1526; the Tughluq dynasty concluded; Timur; the Sayyid; the Lodi dynasty; Islam in Indian life\u003cbr\u003e4.   The Muslim kingdoms of Bengal, Malwa, Gujarat, and Kashmir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK V : THE SOUTHERN POWERS\u003cbr\u003e1.   The Bahmani dynasty of the Deccan, 1347-1526\u003cbr\u003e2.   The five Sultanates of the Deccan, and Khandesh, from 1474 to the seventeenth century\u003cbr\u003e3.   The Hindu empire of Vijayanagar, from A.D. 1336 to 1646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK VI : THE MUGHUL EMPIRE\u003cbr\u003e1.   The beginnings of the Mughul empire; Babur, Humayun, and the Sur dynasty, A.D. 1526-56\u003cbr\u003e2.   The early European voyages to and settlements in India; the East India Company from 1600 to 1708\u003cbr\u003e3.   Akbar, 1555-1605\u003cbr\u003e4.   Jahangir\u003cbr\u003e5.   Shahjahan and the War of Succession; climax of the Mughul empire\u003cbr\u003e6.   Aurangzeb Alamgir (1658-1707)\u003cbr\u003e7.   The later Mughuls; decline of the empire; the Sikhs and Marathas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III\u003cbr\u003eINDIA IN THE BRITISH PERIOD\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK VII : THE RISE OF THE BRITISH DOMINION, 1740-18\u003cbr\u003e1.   English and French\u003cbr\u003e2.   The British in Bengal\u003cbr\u003e3.   Afghans, Mughuls, and Marathas\u003cbr\u003e4.   The Maratha Policy\u003cbr\u003e5.   The Age of Hastings\u003cbr\u003e6.   The Company and the State\u003cbr\u003e7.   Cornwallis\u003cbr\u003e8.   The South, 1780-1801\u003cbr\u003e9.   Shore and Wellesley\u003cbr\u003e10.  Interlude : Barlow and Minto\u003cbr\u003e11.  Lord Hastings and Hegemony\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK VIII : COMPLETION AND CONSOLIDATION, 1818-58\u003cbr\u003e1.   General : Hastings to Dalhousie\u003cbr\u003e2.   The Political Thread : Hastings to Hardinge, 1818-48\u003cbr\u003e3.   Foreign Policy, 1818-48 : Burma and the north-west\u003cbr\u003e4.   Sind and the Panjab\u003cbr\u003e5.   Government and People : Organization of Power\u003cbr\u003e6.   The People and the Government : The Village, the Land, and Trade\u003cbr\u003e7.   Social Policy and Cultural Contacts\u003cbr\u003e8.   Dalhousie\u003cbr\u003e9.   The Mutiny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK IX : IMPERIAL INDIA, 1858-1905\u003cbr\u003e1.   Canning and Reorganization\u003cbr\u003e2.   The Political Thread : Elgin to Elgin\u003cbr\u003e3.   Foreign and Frontier Policy, 1862-98\u003cbr\u003e4.   Economic Policy and Development, 1858-1939\u003cbr\u003e5.   The New India : Western influences\u003cbr\u003e6.   The New India : the Indian response\u003cbr\u003e7.   The States\u003cbr\u003e8.   Lord Curzon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK X : NATIONAL INDIAM 1905-47\u003cbr\u003e1.   The Political and Personal Thread, 1905-47\u003cbr\u003e2.   Edwardian India\u003cbr\u003e3.   The First World War and the Montford Reforms, 1914-21\u003cbr\u003e4.   The Montford Era\u003cbr\u003e5.   The Genesis of Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e6.   The 1935 Act and after\u003cbr\u003e7.   India and the War, 1939-45\u003cbr\u003e8.   Independence and Partition\u003cbr\u003e9.   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