Introduction Part I. Ideologies 1 Religious vs. regional determinism:
India. Pakistan and Bangladesh as inheritors of empire 2 Classical Hindu
scriptures 3 Suttee or sati: victim or victor? 4 Some observations on the
evolution of Modem Standard Punjabi 5 The hidden hand: English lexis,
syntax and idiom as determinants of modem Hindi usage 6 A hero or a
traitor? The Gurkha soldier in Nepali literature 7 Milton and Madhusudan 8
Indian architecture and the English vision Part II. Institutions 9 Legal
pluralism in the Hindu marriage 10 Islamic law and the colonial encounter
in British India 11 Notes on 'peasant insurgency' in colonial Mysore: event
and process 12 Ideas in agrarian history: some observations on the British
and nineteenth-century Bihar 13 Smallpox and colonial medicine in
nineteenth-century India 14 The Indian National Congress: a hundred-year
perspective 15 Charan Singh (1902-87): an assessment
