chapters
- The Harappan world
- Vedic Values
- The Epic Age
- Out of the myth-smoke
- Gloria Maurya
- An age of Paradox
- Gupta Gold
- Lords of the Universe
- Dharma and Defiance
- Natraj, the Rule of the Dance
- The Triumph of the Sultans
- Other Indias
- The Making of the Mughal Empire
- Mughal pomp, Indian circumstance
- From Taj-Raj
- The britissh conquest
- Pax Brittanica
- Awake the Nation
- At the Stroke of the midnight hour
- Crossing the tracks