A POPULAR AND PICTURESQUE HISTORY OF HINDUSTAN

FLORA ANNIE STEEL AUTHOR OF "ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS," ETC.

PREFACE

LIST OF MAPS

CONTENTS

PART I

THE ANCIENT AGE

THE VEDIC TIMES

THE DAYS OF THE EPICS

THE MARVELLOUS MILLENNIUM

THE SESU-NaGA ( and Other ) KINGS

THE ANABASIS

THE GREAT MAURYAS

THE OUTLYING PROVINCES

THE BACTRIAN CAMEL AND THE INDIAN BULL

THE GREAT GuPTA EMPIRE

THE WHITE HUNS AND GOOD KING HARSHA

CHAOS

PART II

CAMPAIGNS OF THE CRESCENT

CAMPAIGNS OF THE CRESCENT (2)

THE RAJPUT RESISTANCE

THE SLAVE KINGS

THE TARTAR DYNASTIES

THE INVASION OF TIMUR

DEVASTATED INDIA

THE GREAT MOGHULS

THE GREAT MOGHULS (2)

THE GREAT MOGHULS (3)

THE HOUSE OF SuR

THE WANDERINGS OF A KING

AKBAR THE GREAT

JAHaNGIR AND NURJAHaN

SHaHJAHaN

AURUNGZEBE

PART III

INDIA IN THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

THE RISE OF THE MAHRATTA POWER

THE INVASION OF NaDIR

THE GAME OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH

PLOTS AND COUNTERPLOTS

ROBERT CLIVE

ROBERT CLIVE (2)

HYDER-ALI ET ALIA

WARREN HASTINGS

ADMINISTRATIONS AND IMPEACHMENTS

THE BOARD OF CONTROL

THE EXTINCTION OF MONOPOLY

FREEDOM AND FRONTIERS

MANNERS, MORALS, AND MISSIONARIES

THE GREAT MUTINY

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes:

1. Page scan source:

http://books.google.com/books?id=swpuAAAAMAAJ

(University of Michigan)
2. The letter "y" with circumflex is Courier New 375.

3. Map images are incomplete and are not provided here.

Map: India to the Present Day.

INDIA THROUGH THE
AGES