Modern South Asia

Sugata Bose is Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University, USA. His books include A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (2006) and His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire (2011) Ayesha Jalal is Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, USA. Her books include Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia (2010) and The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, Times, and Work across the India–Pakistan Divide (2013).

1. South Asian history: An Introduction 2. Modernity and antiquity: interpretations of ancient India 3.Pre-modern accommodations of difference: the making of Indo-Islamic cultures 4. The Mughal empire: state, economy and society 5. India between empires: decline or decentralization? 6.The transition to colonialism: resistance and collaboration 7. The first century of British rule, 1757 to 1857: state and economy 8. Company raj and Indian society, 1757 to 1857: re-invention and reform of tradition 9. 1857: rebellion, collaboration and the transition to crown raj 10. High noon of colonialism, 1858 to 1914: state and political economy 11. A nation in making? ‘Rational’ reform, ‘religious’ revival, 1858 to c. 1900 12. A nation in making: Swadeshi Nationalism and Internationalism, 1905-1918 13. Colonialism under siege: state and political economy after World War I 14. Gandhian nationalism and mass politics in the 1920s 15. The Depression decade: society, economics and politics 16. Nationalism and colonialism during World War II and its aftermath: economic crisis and political confrontation 17. The partition of India and the creation of Pakistan 18. 1947: memories and meanings 19. Post-colonial South Asia: state and economy, society and politics, 1947 to 1971 20. Post-colonial South Asia: State and economy, society and politics, 1971 to c. 2000 21. South Asia in the Twenty-First Century 22. Decolonizing South Asian history: A 75th anniversary perspective