Chapter 1: The Harappan World c3000–1700 BC
Chapter 2: Vedic Values: c1700–900 BC
Chapter 3: The Epic Age: c900–520 BC
Chapter 4: Out of the Myth-Smoke: c520–c320 BC
Chapter 5: Gloria Maurya: c320–200 BC
Chapter 6: An Age of Paradox: c200 BC–c300 AD
Chapter 7: Gupta Gold: c300–500 AD
Chapter 8: Lords of the Universe: c500–700
Chapter 9: Dharma and Defiance: c700–c900
Chapter 10: Natraj, the Rule of the Dance: c950–1180
Chapter 11: The Triumph of the Sultans: c1180–1320
Chapter 12: Other Indias: 1320–1525
Chapter 13: The Making of the Mughal Empire: 1500–1605
Chapter 14: Mughal Pomp, Indian Circumstance: 1605–1682
Chapter 15: From Taj to Raj: 1682–1750
Chapter 16: The British Conquest: 1750–1820
Chapter 17: Pax Britannica: 1820–1880
Chapter 18: Awake the Nation: 1880–1930
Chapter 19: At the Stroke of the Midnight Hour: 1930–1948
Chapter 20: Surgical Procedures: 1948–1965
Chapter 21: The Spectre of Separatism: 1962–1972
Chapter 22: ‘Demockery’: 1972–1984
Chapter 23: Midnight’s Grandchildren: 1984–