A Concise History of India (Cambridge Concise Histories)
"With an informative,scholarly text enhanced with illustrations and quotations....[this book] is recommended for academic reading lists and reference collections as well as the non-specialist general reader with an  interest in understanding India's contemporary political and economic relationships with the community of nations..."   Library Bookwatch"Lucid comprehensive and up-to-date, this book will surely establish itself as essential reading for all undergraduate and graduate courses on South Asian history..."   C.A. Bayly, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge