Focusing on the interactions between individual lives, social networks and financial, material, cultural and social flows, leading experts from Edinburgh's history provide fascinating detail on how Edinburgh's links to India were formed and transformed.

Roger Jeffery is Professor of Sociology of South Asia at the University of Edinburgh.

1. Introduction - India in Edinburgh: 1750s to the Present 2. The Benefits to Edinburgh and Leith from East India Company Connections: c. 1725-c. 1834 3. Orientalist collecting of Indian Sculpture 4. India associations in Scotland's National Galleries: From Tipu to the Trenches and Simla to Surrealism 5. A History of Indian collections at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: In 22 Objects 6. The Skull Room: Craniological past of Edinburgh and India 7. Edinburgh Schools: Suppliers of Men for Imperial India in the long 19th century 8. Edinburgh University, the Indian Civil Service and the 'Competition-Wallahs' 9. Medical Education for Women in Edinburgh: The India Connection, 1869-1914 10. Afterword: An Indian in Edinburgh