Modern times: India 1880s-1950s: environment, economy, culture/ Sumit Sarkar

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. IMPERIAL STRUCTURES, POLICIES, AND IDEOLOGIES
Consolidating the Raj
Imperial Ceremony and Restructuring after 1857 -- Viceregal Attitudes—Liberal Rhetoric, Conservative Compulsion -- British Indian Foreign Policy Before Curzon -- The Army and Military Policy -- Financial and Administrative Pressures in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Local Self-Government, Council Reform, and Divide-and-Rule
Knowledge and Governance
Orientalism, Old and New -- A Legal Basis for Communalism? Law and the Creation -- of Religious Domains -- Surveying an Empire: The Census and the Constitution of Social Realities -- Unmasking Conquest: Education, Print, and the Early Public Sphere -- The Missions of Empire—Christianity and the State Western Science, Colonial Practic -- Racist and Gendered: Facets of the Empire
The Princely States
Mysore -- Jammu and Kashmir -- Manipur

2. WOODS AND TREES: THE ENVIRONMENT AND
THE ECONOMY
Environmental Histories: Origins and Core Issues -- Regulation and Protection as Appropriation: Forests and 'Wastes' in Late-Colonial India -- Sedentarization, Property, and Order -- Seeing the Wood through the Trees: Regional Studies

3. FIELDWORK; AGRICULTURE AND AGRARIAN HISTORY
Agricultural Production -- Revenue, Rent, and Tenancy -- Commercialization and Indebtedness -- Agrarian Structures, Changes, and Continuities -- The Forms of Labour -- Famines and their Diagnosis

4. TRADE, INDUSTRY, AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY
OF EMPIRE
Of Drains and Trains
Drain Inspectors? Ideas on the 'Drain of Wealth' and Beyond -- Imperial Steam: The Railways and their Far-reaching Consequences -- Indian and European Commerce, Finance, and Entrepreneurship -- Bazaars, Townsmen, Rulers, and Enclaves -- Noteworthy: Banking and Currency -- European and Indian Entrepreneurship: Regional Variations -- Deindustrialization and the Traditional Industries: ' A Vexed Question: Did Handicrafts Decline? -- Capital and Labour: Plantations, Mines, and Factories -- Unedenic Gardens: Tea, Indigo, and Plantation Labour -- Trouble Underground: Mines and Mine-workers -- An Old Yarn: Jute Mills and Markets -- Spinning Stories: Cotton Mills in Western India and Elsewhere -- Beyond Blacksmiths: Iron and Steel -- Labour in the Informal Sector -- Colonial Economic Policies -- Demography and the National Income

5. SOCIETY AND CULTURE
The Country, the City, and the New Middle Class -- Picturing India: The Country and the City -- The Road to Urban Spaces: Refashioning Colonial Cities -- Hail Fellow Well Met: Urban Sociabilities from the Late Nineteenth Century -- Forever Rising, Forever New: The Middle Class
Languages and Literatures
Print and the Development of Vernacular Languages -- Literatures, High and Low: Poetry, Novels, Short Stories -- The Viewless Wings of Poesy: Poetry and Poetic Forms -- A Various Universe: Prose, Fiction, Stories
The Visual and Performing Arts
Hybridity and Technological Change: Photography, Theatre, Painting, and the Early Cinema -- Mechanical Reproductions of Art, 'Real Life', and Sound -- Photography: British and Indian -- Play-acting: Theatre and the Movies. -- Music, Dance, and Dance-Drama: Devadasis, Bhatkhande, Paluskar -- Picturesque: Painting and the Fine Arts -- Kalighat Paintings -- Gentlemen Artists, Realism, and Ravi Varma -- The Bengal School—and After The Beginnings of Indian Cinema.