A survey of Indian political and social change starting from the creation of a single dominant government under the Mughals in the seventeenth century and continuing to the present. Topics and themes to be covered include: the nature of rule over a polytheistic, multi-lingual society by an Islamic warrior elite; the importance of Indian co-operation in the short era of British dominion; the realities of romanticised British life under the Rah; the strength historically of Indian commerce both in the bazaar and across the Indian Ocean; Gandhian nationalism and non-violence; the post-1945 principle of non-alignment; the rise of the world's largest middle class in the late twentieth century; and the appeal overseas of Indian culture from the 1960s-1990s. Tutorials will look at such things as the world-view of Hinduism; the use of architecture to display power in the Taj Mahal and the creation of New Delhi; women, costume and identity; and the recurring cultural motifs of Bollywood cinema.