List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Note on Transliteration; Preface; 1. Introduction: A Brief History of the Horse in South Asia from Prehistory to the Present Ranabir Chakravarti and Pratyay Nath; 2. Galloping towards Brahmanization: Horse and Kingship in the Mahabharata and the Ramayaa Kanad Sinha; 3. South Asia's Early Interactions and Experiences with the Equine World Ranabir Chakravarti; 4. Situating Horses in the Trade and Politics of Peninsular India, c. 600-1500 Suchandra Ghosh; 5. Between Faith and Fat: The Horse across Islamicate West Asia and South Asia Kashshaf Ghani; 6. The Logistics of Equine Maritime Transportation: Containing, Watering, and Feeding Horses in Medieval Indian Ocean Trade Elizabeth Lambourn; 7.

The Pony Predicament: Equestrian Economy and Courtly Culture in the Mughal Empire Pratyay Nath; 8. Colours and Whorls: The Sanskrit salihotra Tradition of Horse Treatises in Persian Eva Orthmann; 9. Horses in Unlikely Places: Equine Histories from Early Modern Assam Nandita Goswami; 10. The Horse of Myth and the Horse of History in a Mid-Eighteenth Century Chatri in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan Saumya Agarwal; 11. From the Marathas to the British: The Waning of the Horse Warriors in Eighteenth-Century India Kaushik Roy; 12. Breeding Equine Animals in Colonial India: Abolition of the 'Bengal Studs' and Its Aftermath, c. 1870s-1920s Aritri Chakrabarti; 13. Paths of Ponies: Labour, Logistics, and the State in Modern Kashmir Inayatullah Din; 14.

Run, Pull, Stop: Harnessing Horse Power in Colonial Calcutta Kaustubh Mani Sengupta; 15. Cantering through the Canvas: The Horse in Modern Indian Art Ella Datta; Appendix: The Horse Rabindranath Tagore, translation by Palash Baran Pal; List of Contributors; Index.