1. Survey of the Sources 2. The Land in Relation to History 3. The Earliest Peoples and Cultures 4. The Dawn of History: Aryanization 5. The Age of the Mauryan Empire 6. The Satavahanas and their Successors 7. The Age of the Sangam and After 8. Conflict of Three Empires 9. The Balance of two Empires 10. The Age of the Four Kingdoms 11. The Bahmanis and the Rise of Vijayanagar 12. The Empire of Vijayanagar 13. Social and Economic Conditions 14. Literature 15. Religion and Philosophy 16. Art and Architecture
