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Title Page Contents About the Author List of Maps Foreword to the 2004 Edition Foreword Preface to Original Edition A Chronology of World History From Central Prison, Naini

A Birthday Letter 1 A New Year’s Gift 2 The Lesson of History 3 Inqilab Zindabad 4 Asia and Europe 5 The Old Civilizations and Our Inheritance 6 The Hellenes 7 The Greek City-States 8 Empires in Western Asia 9 The Burden of Old Tradition 10 The Village Republics of Ancient India 11 A Thousand Years of China 12 The Call of the Past 13 Where Do Riches Go To? 14 The Sixth Century before Christ, and Religion 15 Persia and Greece 16 The Glory That was Hellas 17 A Famous Conqueror but a Conceited Young Man 18 Chandragupta Maurya and the Arthashastra

From on Board S.S. Cracovia in the Arabian Sea

19 Three Months! 20 The Arabian Sea

From District Gaol, Bareilly

21 A Holiday and a Dream Journey 22 Man’s Struggle for a Living 23 A Survey 24 Ashoka, the Beloved of the Gods 25 The World of Ashoka’s Time 26 The Ch’ins and the Hans 27 Rome against Carthage 28 The Roman Republic Becomes an Empire 29 South India Overshadows the North 30 The Borderland Empire of the Kushans 31 Jesus and Christianity 32 The Roman Empire 33 The Roman Empire Splits up and Finally Becomes a Ghost 34 The Idea of the World State 35 Parthia and the Sassanids 36 South India Colonizes 37 Hindu Imperialism under the Guptas 38 The Huns Come to India 39 India’s Control of Foreign Markets 40 The Ups and Downs of Countries and Civilizations 41 China Flourishes under the Tangs 42 Chosen and Dai Nippon 43 Harsha-Vardhana and Hiuen Tsang 44 South India Produces Many Kings and Warriors and a Great Man 45 India in the Middle Ages 46 Angkor the Magnificent and Sri Vijaya 47 Rome Relapses into Darkness 48 The Coming of Islam 49 The Arabs Conquer from Spain to Mongolia 50 Baghdad and Harun-al-Rashid 51 From Harsha to Mahmud in North India 52 The Countries of Europe Take Shape 53 The Feudal System 54 China Pushes the Nomads to the West 55 The Shogun Rules in Japan

From District Gaol, Dehra Dun

56 The Quest of Man 57 The End of the First Millennium after Christ 58 Another Look at Asia and Europe 59 The Maya Civilization of America 60 A Jump back to Mohenjo Daro 61 Cordoba and Granada 62 The Crusades 63 Europe at the Time of the Crusades 64 The Rise of European Cities 65 The Afghans Invade India 66 The Slave Kings of Delhi 67 Chengiz Khan Shakes up Asia and Europe 68 The Mongols Dominate the World 69 Marco Polo, the Great Traveller 70 The Roman Church Becomes Militant 71 The Fight against Authoritarianism 72 The Passing of the Middle Ages 73 The Discovery of the Sea Routes 74 The Break-up of the Mongol Empires 75 India Begins to Tackle a Difficult Problem 76 The Kingdoms of South India 77 Vijayanagar 78 The Malaysian Empires of Madjapahit and Malacca 79 Europe Begins to Grab in Eastern Asia 80 An Age of Peace and Prosperity in China 81 Japan Shuts Herself up 82 Europe in Turmoil 83 The Renaissance 84 The Protestant Revolt and the Peasants’ War 85 Autocracy in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe 86 The Netherlands Fight for Freedom 87 England Cuts off the Head of Her King 88 Babar 89 Akbar 90 The Decline and Fall of the Moghal Empire in India 91 The Sikhs and the Marathas 92 The English Triumph over Their Rivals in India 93 A Great Manchu Ruler in China 94 A Chinese Emperor Writes to an English King 95 The War of Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Europe 96 Europe on the Eve of Great Changes 97 The Coming of the Big Machine 98 The Industrial Revolution Begins in England 99 America Breaks away from England 100 The Fall of the Bastille 101 The French Revolution 102 Revolution and Counter-revolution 103 The Ways of Governments 104 Napoleon 105 More about Napoleon 106 A Survey of the World 107 The Hundred Years before the World War 108 The Nineteenth Century Continued 109 Wars and Revolt in India 110 The Indian Artisan Goes to the Wall 111 The Village, the Peasant, and the Landlord in India 112 How Britain Ruled India 113 The Reawakening of India 114 Britain Forces Opium on China 115 China in Difficulties 116 Japan Rushes Ahead 117 Japan Defeats Russia 118 China Becomes a Republic 119 Farther India and the East Indies 120 Another New Year’s Day 121 The Philippines and the United States of America 122 Where Three Continents Meet 123 A Look Back 124 The Persistence of Iran’s Old Traditions 125 Imperialism and Nationalism in Persia 126 About Revolutions Generally, and Especially Those of Eighteen Forty-Eight in Europe 127 Italy Becomes a United and Free Nation 128 The Rise of Germany 129 Some Famous Writers 130 Darwin and the Triumph of Science 131 The Advance of Democracy 132 The Coming of Socialism 133 Karl Marx and the Growth of Workers’ Organizations 134 Marxism 135 The Victorian Age in England 136 England Becomes the World’s Money-Lender 137 Civil War in America 138 The Invisible Empire of America 139 Seven Hundred Years of Conflict between Ireland and England 140 Home Rule and Sinn Fein in Ireland 141 Britain Seizes and Holds on to Egypt 142 Turkey Becomes the “Sick Man of Europe” 143 The Russia of the Tsars 144 The Russian Revolution of 1905 That Failed 145 The End of an Epoch 146 The World War Begins 147 India on the Eve of the War 148 War 1914–18 149 The Course of the War 150 The Passing away of Tsardom in Russia 151 The Bolsheviks Seize Power 152 The Soviets Win through 153 Japan Bullies China 154 India during War-Time 155 The New Map of Europe 156 The Post-War World 157 Ireland’s Fight for a Republic 158 A New Turkey Rises from the Ashes 159 Mustafa Kemal Breaks with the Past 160 India Follows Gandhi 161 India in the Nineteen Twenties 162 Peaceful Rebellion in India 163 Egypt’s Fight for Freedom 164 What Independence under the British Means 165 Western Asia Re-enters World Politics 166 The Arab Countries—Syria 167 Palestine and Trans-Jordan 168 Arabia—A Jump from the Middle Ages 169 Iraq and the Virtues of Aerial Bombing 170 Afghanistan and Some Other Countries of Asia 171 The Revolution That Did Not Come off 172 A New Way of Paying Old Debts 173 The Strange Behaviour of Money 174 Move and Counter-move 175 Mussolini and Fascism in Italy 176 Democracy and Dictatorships 177 Revolution and Counter-revolution in China 178 Japan Defies the World 179 The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics 180 The Piatiletka, or Russia’s Five Year Plan 181 The Soviet Union’s Difficulties, Failures and Successes 182 Science Goes ahead 183 The Good and Bad Applications of Science 184 The Great Depression and World Crisis 185 What Caused the Crisis 186 The Struggle of America and England for Leadership 187 The Dollar, the Pound, and the Rupee 188 The Capitalist World Fails to Pull together 189 Revolution in Spain 190 The Nazi Triumph in Germany 191 Disarmament 192 President Roosevelt to the Rescue 193 The Failure of Parliaments 194 A Final Look Round the World 195 The Shadow of War 196 The Last Letter

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