The Making of India

Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses on Indian civilization and history, this text provides a sweeping look at the long and varied history of India and how this complex legacy has shaped, and is shaping, the nation's modern polity. It offers unique political-historical coverage of India from pre-history into the 21st century.

Ranbir Vohra

I: Pre-Modern India; 1: Traditional India; 2: Indian Civilization; 3: India's Adjustment to British Aggression 1756-1857; II: India Under the British, 1858-1947; 4: The British Record; 5: The Making of a Communal Polity 1858-1908; 6: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Communalism; III: Independent India; 7: Jawaharlal Nehru 1947-1964; 8: Indira Gandhi, 1966-1984; 9: The Decline of the Congress, 1985-1996; 10: The Rise of the BJP as a National Party, 1996-2004; 11: The Resurrection of the Congress; 12: Epilogue: Modern India and Modern China