Reframing India in World History

Lavanya Vemsani is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History in the Department of Social Sciences at Shawnee State University and Honorary Visiting Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

• Introduction: Reframing India in World History Part I The Beginnings of Indian CivilizationChapter 1. First Human Settlements: The Great Journey Begins Chapter 2. Prehistoric Golden Era: Neolithic and Other Late Prehistoric Cultures of IndiaChapter 3. Earthly Cultures and the Other Worldly Outlook Chapter 4. Age of Philosophers, Religions, and EmpiresPart II. The Rise and Spread of Indian CivilizationChapter 5. Civilizational Era: The Evolution of Indian CivilizationChapter 6. Vision Beyond the Land: The Mauryas of IndiaChapter 7. India at the Turn of the First MillenniumChapter 8. Classical India and Southernization of the WorldChapter 9. Later First Millennium India: Overseas ExpansionPart III. Crisis in Indian CivilizationChapter 10. India Open for Business: Pillaging and Pilfering on the EdgesChapter 11. Early Colonial and Colonial Regimes of India Chapter 12. European Colonization of India Chapter 13. Making of India: Midnight to Moon StrikeConclusion: Reframing Indian History: Way Forward

In this extensively researched volume, Lavanya Vemsani presents a powerful case for a decolonial revision of how the history of India should be viewed. Her work will undoubtedly spark debate as well as a rethinking of many of the assumptions on which traditional Indological scholarship is based.