Ishita Banerjee – Dube in A History of Modern India provides a comprehensive and interpretive account of history of India. It explains the time gap between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and along with that the crucial time period characterized by colonialism, nationalism and emergence of independent Indian union. This book combines analysis of colonial and independent India and explores significant historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting important issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste and labor. It comprises of historical maps, old photographs, posters and imaginative timelines. This book will be useful to scholars and students of history.