Preface
Introduction
Scope and Purpose
Selection: Limits, Inclusions and Exclusions
A Note on Administrative Documents
Structure and Organization
On the Use of the Bibliography
Note on Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
Maps
The Outline of Headings
The Bibliographic Entries
Part One - Overview of the Great Tradition
1. Traditional South Asia: Enduring Structures and Concepts through Space and Time
Part Two - Four Ages of Historical Evolution: Subcontinental and Regional
2. Prehistory and Protohistory of South Asia to 600 BC: The Paleolithic through the Vedic Age
3. Ancient India: c. 6th Cent. BC to 6th Cent. AD, from the Time of the Buddha through the Imperial Guptas
4. Early "Medieval" South Asia, 600-1526 AD: Emergence of Regional Traditions and Penetration of Islam
5. The Mughals, Marathas, and the Rise of British Power: South Asia in an Era of World Integration and Interaction, 1526-1818
Part Three - Transformations in the Modern Age: National Level
6. The Raj: Princely and British India, from Company to Empire to Independence (1818-1947)
7. The Present-Day South Asian Subcontinent in its Global Context, 1947-
8. India as Nation-State: The Challenge of Development in the World's Largest Democracy, 1947-
9. The Islamic State of Pakistan: Genesis, Division, and Development, 1947-71, 1971-
Part Four - Transformations in the Modern Age: The Eight Geo-Cultural Areas
10. Ceylon to Sri Lanka: Cosmopolitan Island, Colony to Nation-State, 1796-1948, 1948- ; The Maldives
11. The Dravidian South of India: Cultural Distinctness Versus National Integration, 1800-
12. Middle India: Contrasts of Tradition and Modernity in an Area of Transition between North and South; Persistence of Tribal Cultures, Princely Conservatism and Urban Progress, 1818-
13. The Northwest: The Indus Valley and Mountain Frontier, 1799-
14. North India: The Populous Hindi-Speaking Ganga Plains, India's Political and Cultural Heartland, 1801-
15. The Northeast: The Bengal-Bangladesh and Assam Area of the Ganga Delta and Brahmaputra Valley, 1813-
16. The Himalayas and Eastern Mountain Rim of India, Nepal and Bhutan: Fringes of Tibetan, Buddhist, and Southeast Asian Cultures, 1816-
17. The Indic Diaspora: South Asian Communities Throughout the World
Part Five - Reference Resources
18. Introductions and General Research Guides for Travellers and Scholars
Author Index
Subject Index