This comprehensive history of modern South Asia explores the historical development of the Subcontinent from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the pres

Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national term

A wide-ranging survey of the Indian sub-continent, Modern South Asia gives an enthralling account of South Asian history. After sketching the pre-modern history

South Asia and the world to 1500 BCE -- The Vedic Age, 1500 to 500 BCE -- South Asia's classical age: 325 BCE to 711 CE -- Islam in South Asia, c. 711 to 1556 -

In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of ‘the public’ has come under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To better understand this