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India : 5,000 years of history on the subcontinent /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Truschke, Audrey (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
India > History.
Inde > Histoire.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.