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This volume contains eight essays that cover an entire range of themes including the relationship of violence and collection memory in pre-colonial South Asia. The essays attempt explicitly to implement a program of what the author calls "connected history," reworking the history of South Asia into a larger Eurasian space of conjunctural movements. The essays are in part a reaction to certain mechanistic forms of comparative history that were prevalent among early modern historians in the 1990s. This volume also represents the author's scholarly concerns in this theoretical framework-namely of finding connections between events in history, thus making them a part of a simultaneous historical process--over the last ten years. He also aims to critique current trends in history writing that are, in fact, though in a new theoretical language, giving voice to the same ideologically motivated assumptions about India and Indian history. | 
