| Theme | Title | Description | Page No. |
|---|
| Theme Five | Through the Eyes of Travellers | Perceptions of Society (c. tenth to seventeenth century) | 115 |
| Theme Six | Bhakti-Sufi Traditions | Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts (c. eighth to eighteenth century) | 140 |
| Theme Seven | An Imperial Capital: Vijayanagara | (c. fourteenth to sixteenth century) | 170 |
| Theme Eight | Peasants, Zamindars and the State | Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire (c. sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) | 196 |
| Theme Nine | Kings and Chronicles | The Mughal Courts (c. sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) | 224 |
