Table of Contents

 List of maps; Contributors to this volume; Introduction; PART ONE At the turn of the sixteenth century; I. A changing world; II. The Indian states: the sultanates; III. The Indian states: the kingdoms; IV. The newcomers; PART TWO The Mogul Empire (1556–1739); V. Akbar and the construction of the empire (1556–1605); VI. Mogul splendour: The successors of Akbar (1605–1707); VII. The empire in its prosperity; VIII. Maritime economy and the trading companies; IX. Society and culture; X. The disintegration of the Mogul Empire (1707–39); PART THREE India between two empires (1739–1818); XI. The successor states (1739–61); XII. French India and Franco-British rivalry (until 1761); XIII. The British conquest of Bengal (1757–84); XIV. The birth of the British Empire in India (1765–1818); PART FOUR India in transition (from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century); XV. The beginnings of the Raj (1818–58); XVI. The agrarian economy and rural society (1790–1860); XVII. Merchants and cities (1760–1860); XVIII. Cultural and religious transformations (1780–1857); PART FIVE From the British Indian Empire to Independence (1858–1950); XIX. The Colonial state and Indian society (1858–1914); XX. The decline of the empire and the rise of nationalism (1914–42); XXI. Princely India (1858–1950); XXII. The world of the countryside (1860–1950); XXIII. Trade, industries, cities (1860–1950); XXIV. Socio-religious reforms and nationalism (1870–1948); XXV. The end of the British Empire in India; PART SIX On the margins of the Empire; XXVI. French India (nineteenth–twentieth century); XXVII. Sri Lanka: specificities and similarities; Conclusion; Chronology; Glossary; Bibliography; Index