Chapters
- European arrival and Company expansion
- Company administration and colonial economy
- Resistance before 1857 and the Revolt of 1857
- Socio-religious reform and caste movements
- Early nationalism and the Congress
- Swadeshi, Extremists and Home Rule 1905-1918
- The Gandhian phase 1915-1939
- Revolutionary, left, peasant and labour movements
- Constitutional and administrative development 1858-1947
- Communalism and Partition
- Towards freedom 1939-1947
- Princely states and their integration
- Post-independence consolidation and reorganisation