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 xxiii
... Maratha chief minister; from 1720, de facto ruler of the Maratha confederacy pir 'elder', founder or head of a sufi order or shrine presidency The residence of a 'president'; here used for the three East India Company centres of Madras ...
... Maratha chief minister; from 1720, de facto ruler of the Maratha confederacy pir 'elder', founder or head of a sufi order or shrine presidency The residence of a 'president'; here used for the three East India Company centres of Madras ...
الصفحة xxix
... Maratha confederacy established under Peshwas (to 1818). 1717 Emperor Farrukhsiyar awards British duty-free export ... Marathas at the battle of Panipat; Haider Ali founds state of Mysore in the south. 1764 British defeat combined ...
... Maratha confederacy established under Peshwas (to 1818). 1717 Emperor Farrukhsiyar awards British duty-free export ... Marathas at the battle of Panipat; Haider Ali founds state of Mysore in the south. 1764 British defeat combined ...
الصفحة xxx
... Marathas; British control the entire subcontinent outside the north-west. 1819 Founding of Hindu College, Calcutta. 1828 Ram Mohan Roy founds Brahmo Samaj. 1829 Bentinck abolishes sati. 1835 Macaulay's Minute on Education. 1849 Second ...
... Marathas; British control the entire subcontinent outside the north-west. 1819 Founding of Hindu College, Calcutta. 1828 Ram Mohan Roy founds Brahmo Samaj. 1829 Bentinck abolishes sati. 1835 Macaulay's Minute on Education. 1849 Second ...
الصفحة 2
... Marathas, and, in 1803, placed under the control of that very English Company which, as this new century turned, had lately come to a vision of creating an empire itself. The most familiar ways of understanding the Mughal era in Indian ...
... Marathas, and, in 1803, placed under the control of that very English Company which, as this new century turned, had lately come to a vision of creating an empire itself. The most familiar ways of understanding the Mughal era in Indian ...
الصفحة 17
... Marathas. The unifying ideology of the regime was that of loyalty, expressed through Persianate cultural forms, not a tribal affiliation (like that of the Ottomans), nor an Islamic or an Islamic sectarian identity (like that of the ...
... Marathas. The unifying ideology of the regime was that of loyalty, expressed through Persianate cultural forms, not a tribal affiliation (like that of the Ottomans), nor an Islamic or an Islamic sectarian identity (like that of the ...
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The East India Company Raj 17721850 | 57 |
Revolt the modern state and colonized subjects 18481885 | 97 |
Civil society colonial constraints 18851919 | 123 |
The crisis of the colonial order 19191939 | 167 |
Triumph and tragedy | 217 |
Democracy and development 19501989 | 231 |
Prosperity poverty power | 265 |
Biographical notes | 295 |
Bibliographic essay | 301 |
Index | 313 |
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