Did Modernity arrive in South Asia with British Colonialism? Or was South Asia already modern by then? What might have that modernity looked lie? The Early Modern in South Asia engages with these questions. It brings together ten chapters, which collectively trace the contours of South Asia’s early modernity between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. They do this by examining the nature of historical change in various domains, including philosophy, warfare, law, environment, politics, violence, religion, and society.