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5,000 years of history on the subcontinent
xix, 687 pages : illustrations (black & white), maps ; 25 cm
Scholarly conventions -- Starting points -- Indus Valley civilization, 2600-1900 BCE -- Ancient migrants and Vedic practices -- Building and renouncing cities, 550-325 BCE -- Ashoka's Mauryan Empire -- Mahabharata, a tale of ancient India -- South Asians traveling, 200 BCE-300 CE -- Inequality, pleasure, and power in early India -- India in the world, ca. 700 CE -- Medieval south India -- Indo-Persian rule and culture, 1190-1350 -- The long fifteenth century -- Seeking God or fame, 1500-1550 -- Ordinary and extraordinary lives in early modern India -- Religious communities and elite culture, 1600-1650 -- Aurangzeb's empire and two Shudra lineages -- Regional flourishing, 1720-1780 -- Company Bahadur -- Sepoy Rebellion and dawn of the British Raj -- Knowing India and Indians, 1860-1900 -- Indians on the move, 1880-1920 -- Advocating for independence, nationalism, and equal rights -- Dividing India in 1947 -- New nation-states, 1947-1990 -- Everyday life in contemporary south Asia -- Afterword. Now -- Historiography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2025]