A history of modern South Asia: politics, states, diasporas

Introduction

Borders and boundaries

Land, society, environment

The South Asian diasporas

British rule : the first phase

The "high noon" of empire

Indians and the Raj

The nation and beyond : transnational anticolonial struggle

Independence with partition

Nehru and the "new" India

Pakistan's failure in democratic consolidation

Challenges to Nehruvian India

Pakistan's national crisis and the birth of Bangladesh

Bangladesh since independence

Pakistan since 1971

India shining

The contemporary international relations of South Asia.