1.1 How, When and Where - Introduction1.2 How Important Are Dates in History1.3 Which Dates1.4 How Do We Periodise 1.5 Problems in Periodisation of James Mill2.1 From Trade to Territory - Introduction2.2 Background2.3 East India Company Comes East2.4 East India Company Begins Trade in Bengal2.5 How Trade Led to Battle 3.1 Ruling the Countryside - Introduction3.2 The Company Becomes the Diwan3.3 Revenue for the Company 3.4 The Need to Improve Agriculture/Permanent Settlement3.5 The Problems in Permanent Settlement4.1 Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of a Golden Age - Introduction4.2 Some were Jhum Cultivators 4.3 Some were Hunters and Gatherers 4.4 Some Herded Animals4.5 Some took to Settled Cultivation5.1 When People Rebel 1857 and After - Introduction 5.2 Nawabs Lose their Power5.3 The Peasants and the Sepoys5.4 Responses to Reforms5.5 Through the Eyes of the People 6.1 Weavers, Iron Smelters and Factory Owners - Introduction6.2 Indian Textile and the World Market6.3 Words Tell Us Histories6.4 Indian Textile in European Market6.5 Weavers 7.1 Introduction - Civilising the ‘Native’ Educating the Nation 7.2 The Tradition of Orientalism 7.3 Grave Errors of the East 7.4 Education for Commerce7.5 The Demand for Moral Education8.1 Introduction - Women, Caste and Reform8.2 Working Towards Change 8.3 Changing the Lives of Widows8.4 Girls Begin Going to School8.5 Women Write about Women9.1 The Making of the National Movement 1870s - 1947 : Introduction9.2 The Emergence of Nationalism9.3 A Nation in the Making 9.4 Freedom is Our Bright Right 9.5 Further Development : Moderate and Extremist Split, Muslim League 10.1 India After Independence - Introduction10.2 A New and Divided Nation10.3 A Constitution is Written 10.4 How were States to be Formed?10.5 Planning for Development
