This is the Hindi version of History of India 1707-1857 publishedby us.

It is an essential textbook for undergraduate students of Indian history. The period 1707 -1857 was full of dramatic events which has profound consequences for the history of the India. This period marks the fall of great Mughal empire and advent of British rule in India, and also the Revolt of 1857. This book is perhaps the only textbook available on this specific period.

This book covers following main themes:

• The disintegration of the Mughal Empire, the emergence of the successor states, and the establishment of the East India Company’s dominance in the subcontinent.
• The process that aided consolidation of the British Raj, its methods of governance and bliss of its economic set up.
• Social and intellectual construct which developed during this period, laying the ground for colonial dominance as well as resistance to it.
• A comprehensive overview of developments in the fields of culture, art, literature, music and ideas during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
• Resistance to the colonial enterprise, culminating in the rebellion of 1857.

The other features are:

• Each chapter is accompanied by maps
• and up-to-date bibliography
• glossary of terms used in the book

Dr Lakshmi Subramanian is Professor of History in the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. She has previously taught at Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi), University of Calcutta and Visva-Bharati (Shantiniketan). She had several distinguished fellowship and teaching appointment in foreign universities and has published extensively on various aspect of modern India.

1. Attharahieni Shatabdi ka Sankraman Kal (The Eighteenth Century Transition)
2. Company Bahadur ki Sathapana 1757-1857 (The Establishment of the Company Raj 1757-1857 )
3. Drithikaran evm Abhishasan: Company Raj ke Upkaran (Consolidation and Governance : The Apparatus of the Company Raj).
4. Company Raj ke Antargat Arthik Vikas aur Samajik Parivartan  (Economic Development and Social Change under Company Rule)
5.  Pratirodh avm 1857 ka Mahan Vidroh (Resistance and the Great Rebellion of 1857)

Upsanghar (Epilogue)
Shabdavali (glossary)
Anukrasmnika (Index)