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100 1 _aStein, Burton,
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245 1 2 _aA history of India /
_cBurton Stein.
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _aNew Delhi :
_bWiley India Pvt.Ltd.,
_c2010.
300 _axxii, 444 p. :
_c25 cm.
505 2 0 _g1.
_tIntroduction --
_g2.
_tAncient Days.
_tThe Pre-formation of Indian Civilization.
_tVedic Culture.
_tPolitical and Religious Developments.
_tReligion in the Later Vedic Period.
_tThe Nature of the Mauryan Kingdom.
_tTowards the Classical Pattern.
_tEarly Hinduism.
_tDevelopments in the South.
_tThe Age of the Early Empires.
_tThe Gupta Classical Pattern.
_tThe Classical Pattern Elaborated and Extended: the South --
_g3.
_tMedieval India.
_tIntroduction.
_tMedieval Kingdoms.
_tThe Role of the Southern Kingdoms.
_tThe Advent of Islam.
_tThe Indian Development of Islam.
_tThe Deccan and the South.
_tVijayanagara.
_tStates and Communities --
_g4.
_tEarly Modern India.
_tIntroduction.
_tThe Mughal Empire.
_tThe Wars of the Mughal Succession.
_tThe Last Act of the Mughals.
_tThe Maratha Moment.
_tThe Shadow of Europe --
_g5.
_tThe East India Company.
_tIntroduction.
_tThe Joint Trajectory of Development.
_tThe Company Perpetuates the Past.
_tThe Emergence of a New Order.
_tMutiny and Revolt.
_tLate Company Rule --
505 8 0 _g6.
_tThe Crown Replaces the Company.
_tThe Contemporary State.
_tAfter the Mutiny.
_tThe Rule of the Raj.
_tThe Political Economy of the Late Nineteenth Century.
_tCultural Change, Education and New Classes.
_tThe Politicization of Class, Caste and Gender --
_g7.
_tTowards Freedom.
_tTwo Types of Nationalism.
_tEarly Congress and Its Adversaries.
_tWar, Sacrifice and Mass Political Mobilization.
_tImperialism's Paradoxical Enemy.
_tThe First Campaigns.
_tBetween Campaigns.
_tConditions for a New Politics --
_g8.
_tGandhi's Triumph.
_tCivil Disobedience.
_tThe Left in Politics.
_tThe Right Prevails.
_tWar and the Last Act Begins.
_tThe Bitter Victory of Partition --
_g9.
_tNew States, Old Nations.
_tTerritorial Passage.
_tThe Promises of Independence.
_tPakistan in Parallel.
_tThe Green Revolution: Promise of Plenty.
_tEnvironmental Problems, Old and New.
_tThe Condition of Women: Broken Promises.
_tCommunal Politics: Shattered Pluralism.
_tIndia and the World.
_tPromises Kept, Promises Broken.
_tBurton Stein (1 August 1926 to 26 April 1996).
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_xHistory.
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