INDIA
A History: From the Earliest Civilisations to the Boom of the Twenty-First Century
JOHN KEAY
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This updated HarperPress edition published 2010
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2000 Published in paperback by Harper Perennial 2004, reprinted 12 times
Copyright © John Keay 2000 and 2010
Maps and tables by Jillian Luff
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CONTENTS
Author’s note to the Second Edition
1 The Harappan World: C3000–1700 BC
4 Out of the Myth-Smoke: C520–C320 BC
6 An Age of Paradox: C200 BC–C300 AD
8 Lords of the Universe: C500–700
9 Dharma and Defiance: C700–C900
10 Natraj, the Rule of the Dance: C950–1180
11 The Triumph of the Sultans: C1180–1320
13 The Making of the Mughal Empire: 1500–1605
14 Mughal Pomp, Indian Circumstance: 1605–1682
16 The British Conquest: 1750–1820
18 Awake the Nation: 1880–1930
19 At the Stroke of the Midnight Hour: 1930–1948
20 Surgical Procedures: 1948–1965
21 The Spectre of Separatism: 1962–1972
23 Midnight’s Grandchildren: 1984–