Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- The Tides of the Indian Ocean, Islamization and the Dialectic of Coast and Inland -- Shah Jahan wore Glasses: Remarks on the Impact of the Dutch East India Company on Northern India and Some Suggestions for Further Research -- To be a Servant of His Catholic Majesty: Indian Troops of the Estado da Índia in the Eighteenth Century -- The Trials of Captain Hackert and Engineer Andries Leslorant at the Malabar Council of War -- Bedara Revisited: A Reappraisal of the Dutch Expedition of 1759 to Bengal -- Between Fact and Fictions: Khoja Gregory alias Gurgin Khan, the "Evil Genius" of Mir Qasim -- Two Captains of the Jawnpur Sultanate -- Slavery and Naukari among the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad -- The Legitimation of Kingship in India: Bundelkhand -- The Short Career of Walter Dickens in India -- Writing and Reading Tod's Rajasthan: Interpreting the Text and its Historiography -- The Idea of Modernity: European Progress for the Rest of the World? -- Modern Media of Communication and Indigenous Knowledge in India and Europe: Towards an Anthropological Perspective -- From Chariot to Atom Bomb: Armament and Military Organisation in South Asian History -- Bibliography of D.H.A. Kolff -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.