- THEME FIVE | THROUGH THE EYES OF TRAVELLERS | Perceptions of Society (c. tenth to seventeenth century)
- THEME SIX | BHAKTI-SUFI TRADITIONS | Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts (c. eighth to eighteenth century)
- THEME SEVEN | AN IMPERIAL CAPITAL: VIJAYANAGARA (c. fourteenth to sixteenth century)
- THEME EIGHT | PEASANTS, ZAMINDARS AND THE STATE | Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire (c. sixteenth-seventeenth centuries)