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 xviii
... Punjab. Sind and Rajasthan in the north—west lie outside the influence of the monsoon, and so are given over almost wholly to barren desert. The oceans also linked India to its neighbours. The seafaring Cholas of the far south were ...
... Punjab. Sind and Rajasthan in the north—west lie outside the influence of the monsoon, and so are given over almost wholly to barren desert. The oceans also linked India to its neighbours. The seafaring Cholas of the far south were ...
الصفحة xix
... Punjab, whose 'five rivers' flow south—west into the Indus; the rich 'doab' area between Ganges and Jamuna; and farthest to the east, where the Brahmaputra joins it from Tibet, the fertile, heavily watered region of rice agriculture in ...
... Punjab, whose 'five rivers' flow south—west into the Indus; the rich 'doab' area between Ganges and Jamuna; and farthest to the east, where the Brahmaputra joins it from Tibet, the fertile, heavily watered region of rice agriculture in ...
الصفحة xxvii
... Punjab and Gujarat. Most of the subcontinent thinly populated by hunters, gatherers, and herders. c. 1500-1200 B.C. Aryan culture in Punjab and western Gangetic plain derived from contacts or population movements from Central Asia ...
... Punjab and Gujarat. Most of the subcontinent thinly populated by hunters, gatherers, and herders. c. 1500-1200 B.C. Aryan culture in Punjab and western Gangetic plain derived from contacts or population movements from Central Asia ...
الصفحة xxix
... Punjab under Banda (to 1715). 1713 Maratha confederacy established under Peshwas (to 1818). 1717 Emperor Farrukhsiyar awards British duty—free export privilege. 1724 Nizam-ul Mulk establishes rule in Hyderabad. 1727 Jai Singh founds ...
... Punjab under Banda (to 1715). 1713 Maratha confederacy established under Peshwas (to 1818). 1717 Emperor Farrukhsiyar awards British duty—free export privilege. 1724 Nizam-ul Mulk establishes rule in Hyderabad. 1727 Jai Singh founds ...
الصفحة xxx
... Punjab; Dalhousie arrives as governor—general. 18 53 Railway construction begins, with guaranteed interest for investors. 1 8 56 Annexation of Awadh (Oudh). 1 8 57 Mutiny and revolt throughout northern India; first Indian universities ...
... Punjab; Dalhousie arrives as governor—general. 18 53 Railway construction begins, with guaranteed interest for investors. 1 8 56 Annexation of Awadh (Oudh). 1 8 57 Mutiny and revolt throughout northern India; first Indian universities ...
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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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