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The Vijayanagara rajas ruled a substantial part of the southern peninsula of India for over three hundred years, beginning in the mid-fourteenth century. During this epoch the region was transformed from its medieval past toward a modern colonial future. Concentrating on the later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history of Vijayanagara, this book details the pattern of rule established in this important and long-lived Hindu kingdom that was followed by other, often smaller kingdoms of peninsular India until the onset of colonialism. Through an analysis of the politics, society, and economy...

This new edition of Burton Stein's classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present.

• New edition of Burton Stein's classic text provides a narrative from 7000 BC up to the twenty-first century
• Includes updated and extended coverage of the modern period, with a new chapter covering the death of Nehru in 1964 to the present
• Expands coverage of India's internal political and economic development, and its wider diplomatic role in...