Prologue
1. An Empire Committed
2. Peasants into Soldiers
3. Into the Middle East and North Africa
4. Free and Willing Human Beings
5. Not a Paisa, Not a Man
6. Bombed to Hell
7. Money Coming, Money Coming
8. An Empire Exposed
9. Urban Panic
10. The World at the Door
11. Thirty Months Too Late
12. Welcome to Bombay
13. Plantations and Paddyfields
14. Living Dangerously
15. Scorched Earth
16. The Cogs in a Watch
17. Longing and Loss
18. Catalyst of Change
19. Man-a-Mile Road
20. Insults and Discriminations
21. Empires, Lost and Found
22. Celebrations and Recriminations
23. The Sepoy's Return
Chronology of Major Events
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Note on Sources.