From the Book - 1st paperback ed.
I. The Mughals and their contemporaries: 1. The Portuguese in India / M.N. Pearson. 2. Vijayanagara / Burton Stein. 4. Architecture of Mughal India / Catherine B. Asher. 5. The Mughal Empire. 6. Architecture and art of Southern India: Vijayanagara and the successor states
II. Indian States and the transition to colonialism: 1. Indian society and the making of the British Empire / G.A. Bayly. 2. Bengal : the British bridgehead / P.J. Marshall. 3. The Sikhs of the Punjab / J. S. Grewal. 4. The Marathas / Stewart Gordon
III. The Indian empire and the beginnings of modern society: 1. Socio- religious reform movements in British India / Kenneth W. Jones. 2. Peasant labour and colonial capital: rural Bengal since 1770. 3. The economy of modern India, 1860-1970. 4. Ideologies of the Raj
v. 4. The evolution of contemporary South Asia. 1. The politics of India since independence / Paul R. Brass. 2. Women in modern India / Geraldine Forbes