Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. The Mughals and their contemporaries: 1. The Portuguese in India / M.N. Pearson. 2. Vijayanagara / Burton Stein. 3. Mughal and Rajput painting / Milo Cleveland Beach. 4. Architecture of Mughal India / Catherine B. Asher. 5. The Mughal Empire / John F. Richards. 6. Architecture and art of Southern India : Vijayanagara and the successor states / George Michell. 7. Architecture and art of the Deccan sultanates / George Michell and Mark Zebrowski. 8. A social history of the Deccan, 1300-1761 / Richard M. Eaton -- II. Indian states and the transition to colonialism: 1. Indian society and the making of the British Empire / C.A. Bayly. 2. Bengal : the British bridgehead / P.J. Marshall. 3. The Sikhs of the Punjab / J.S. Grewal. 4. The Marathas, 1600-1818 / Stewart Gordon. 5. European commercial enterprise in pre-colonial India / Om Prakash -- 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 / Sugata Bose. 3. The economy of modern India, 1860-1970 / B.R. Tomlinson. 4. Ideologies of the Raj / Thomas R. Metcalf. 5. Science, technology, and medicine in colonial India / David Arnold. 6. The Indian princes and their states / Barbara N. Ramusack -- IV. The evolution of contemporary South Asia: 1. The politics of India since independence / Paul R. Brass. 2. Women in modern India / Geraldine Forbes. 3. Caste, society, and politics in India frrom the eighteenth century to the modern age / Susan Bayly. 4. An agrarian history of South Asia / David Ludden