A Concise History of Modern IndiaCambridge University Press, 24/09/2012 A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through the Congress electoral victory of 2009, to the rise of the Indian high-tech industry in a country still troubled by poverty and political unrest. The narrative focuses on the fundamentally political theme of the imaginative and institutional structures that have successively sustained and transformed India, first under British colonial rule and then, after 1947, as an independent country. Woven into the larger political narrative is an account of India's social and economic development and its rich cultural life. |
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الصفحة vii
... Indian society 1 2 Mughal twilight: The emergence of regional states and the East India Company 29 3 The East India Company Raj, 1772—1850 56 4 Revolt, the modern state, and colonized subjects, 184 8—1885 92 5 Civil society, colonial ...
... Indian society 1 2 Mughal twilight: The emergence of regional states and the East India Company 29 3 The East India Company Raj, 1772—1850 56 4 Revolt, the modern state, and colonized subjects, 184 8—1885 92 5 Civil society, colonial ...
الصفحة ix
... East Offering Its Riches to Britannia, by Spiridion Roma (1778). By permission of the British Library (F245). Fort St George, Madras, c. 1750. Photograph by Thomas Metcalf. page 2 16 19 2.2 34 36 38 41 42 46 48 3.1 3-3 3-4 3-5 3.6 4.2 ...
... East Offering Its Riches to Britannia, by Spiridion Roma (1778). By permission of the British Library (F245). Fort St George, Madras, c. 1750. Photograph by Thomas Metcalf. page 2 16 19 2.2 34 36 38 41 42 46 48 3.1 3-3 3-4 3-5 3.6 4.2 ...
الصفحة xvii
... India's geography. The physical fea— tures of the Indian subcontinent have shaped its history in funda— mental ways. Its size — some 2,000 miles from east to west, and another 2,000 miles from north to south — calls into question the ...
... India's geography. The physical fea— tures of the Indian subcontinent have shaped its history in funda— mental ways. Its size — some 2,000 miles from east to west, and another 2,000 miles from north to south — calls into question the ...
الصفحة xviii
... India continually interacted with its neighbours. Such interaction commonly ... India share fundamental linguistic patterns with those of many European ... East Asia. Indian merchants learned early to navigate with the monsoon winds ...
... India continually interacted with its neighbours. Such interaction commonly ... India share fundamental linguistic patterns with those of many European ... East Asia. Indian merchants learned early to navigate with the monsoon winds ...
الصفحة xix
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. an Indian port, India's European conquerors came from the west across the sea. Its physical features, especially its mountains and rivers, divide India ... east into the Bay of Bengal. A rich ...
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. an Indian port, India's European conquerors came from the west across the sea. Its physical features, especially its mountains and rivers, divide India ... east into the Bay of Bengal. A rich ...
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The emergence of regional states and the East India | 29 |
The East India Company Raj 17721850 | 56 |
Revolt the modern state and colonized subjects 184 81885 | 92 |
Civil society colonial constraints 18851919 | 123 |
The crisis of the colonial order 19191939 | 167 |
Triumph and tragedy | 203 |
Democracy and development 19501989 23 1 | 231 |
Prosperity poverty power 26 5 | 265 |
Biographical notes | 295 |
Bibliographic essay 3 01 | 305 |
I 3 | 313 |
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