A Concise History of Modern IndiaA 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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... who ruled until the empire's dissolution in 19 1 8 following World War I Pandit Title of respect for learned Brahman; passes into English as 'pundit', an expert or authority on some subject panchayat Council, court for arbitration ...
... who ruled until the empire's dissolution in 19 1 8 following World War I Pandit Title of respect for learned Brahman; passes into English as 'pundit', an expert or authority on some subject panchayat Council, court for arbitration ...
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1600 Establishment of East India Company by English, followed by similar companies of Dutch (1602) and French (16 64) merchants. 1646 Shivaji establishes the Maratha stronghold to challenge Mughals. 1707 Death of Aurangzeb.
1600 Establishment of East India Company by English, followed by similar companies of Dutch (1602) and French (16 64) merchants. 1646 Shivaji establishes the Maratha stronghold to challenge Mughals. 1707 Death of Aurangzeb.
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The Mughal emperor, though still a symbolic overlord, was now con— fined to the area around Delhi, himself prey to Afghans, the western Deccan—based Marathas, and, in 1803, placed under the control of that very English Company which, ...
The Mughal emperor, though still a symbolic overlord, was now con— fined to the area around Delhi, himself prey to Afghans, the western Deccan—based Marathas, and, in 1803, placed under the control of that very English Company which, ...
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They also argue, perhaps surprisingly, in relation to the eighteenth century, that it was the culmination of long—term transitions in trade, finance, culture, and society that offered the English the very resources they needed to ...
They also argue, perhaps surprisingly, in relation to the eighteenth century, that it was the culmination of long—term transitions in trade, finance, culture, and society that offered the English the very resources they needed to ...
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English and Dutch trading companies further established themselves in coastal enclaves during the seventeenth century. But the monetization and expanding commerce generated by this trade gave rise, as we shall see in the next chapter, ...
English and Dutch trading companies further established themselves in coastal enclaves during the seventeenth century. But the monetization and expanding commerce generated by this trade gave rise, as we shall see in the next chapter, ...
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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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