1. Introduction
2. The era of Arab predominance
3. Turkish power and Persian culture in the age of transition
4. The Delhi Sultanate at its zenith
5. New centres of Muslim power and culture
6. The Mughal ascendancy: Akbar and his successors
7. The age of Mughal disintegration
8. Muslims under the East India Company
9. Stirrings of a Muslim modernity under the Raj
10. Unity or separatism? Muslim dilemma at the end of the Raj
11. Epilogue: New challenges in a fractured subcontinent.