Author: Percival Spear
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 298
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140138366
Description
This wonderful book is about the unity of texture in the development of the Indian society. The book deals with the Mughal and British periods together in one volume. The Mughal rule is viewed as the preparation and precondition for the modern age ushered in by the British, and the British Raj as the harbinger of Western civilization. A truly enlightening book.
Contents
Maps
acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The coming of the Mughals
2. Akbar
3. The Mughal empire
4. The Great Mughals
5. Europeans and Mughal India
6. Decline, Collapse, and Confusion
7. The English in Bengal
8. The Bengal State and Hegemony
9. Supremacy- Why and Wherefore
10. The New Policy
11. The Completion of Dominion
12. The Imperial Heyday
13. The National Movement: Cultural and Political
14. Congress, Curzon, and Reform
15. The First World War and the Great Leep Forward
16. Mahatma
17. The 1935 Act and the Second World War
18. The Pakistan Movement
19. Independence and Consolidation
20. Nehru's India
21. Post- Nehru India: Epilogue
Bibliography
Index