Dr. J.L. Mehta’s Advanced Study in the History of Modern India is a comprehensive study on the history of modern India between AD 1707 and 1813. The study begins with the death of Aurangzeb, the last imperial ruler of the Mughal dynasty, and carries the story of political and military developments through the eighteenth century, which comprises ‘an epoch of transition’ from the medieval to the modern period of Indian history. The narrative shatters the ...