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
... development , 1950–1989 231 9 Democratic India at the turn of the millennium : Prosperity , poverty , power 265 Biographical notes 295 Bibliographic essay 301 Index 313 ILLUSTRATIONS 1.1 View of Shah Jahan's Red Fort, Delhi. Reproduced vii.
... development , 1950–1989 231 9 Democratic India at the turn of the millennium : Prosperity , poverty , power 265 Biographical notes 295 Bibliographic essay 301 Index 313 ILLUSTRATIONS 1.1 View of Shah Jahan's Red Fort, Delhi. Reproduced vii.
الصفحة ix
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. ILLUSTRATIONS. 1.1 View of Shah Jahan's Red Fort, Delhi. Reproduced by courtesy of the Center for Art and Archeology, American Institute of Indian Studies, Gurgaon, India. 1.2 Asoka Pillar, Ferozshah ...
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. ILLUSTRATIONS. 1.1 View of Shah Jahan's Red Fort, Delhi. Reproduced by courtesy of the Center for Art and Archeology, American Institute of Indian Studies, Gurgaon, India. 1.2 Asoka Pillar, Ferozshah ...
الصفحة xxix
... Shah sacks Delhi. 1744 War of Austrian Succession in Europe (to 1748); Dupleix asserts French power in India. 1756 Bengal Nawab Suraj-ud-daula conquers Calcutta. 1757 Battle of Plassey; British control of Bengal. 1761 Afghans defeat ...
... Shah sacks Delhi. 1744 War of Austrian Succession in Europe (to 1748); Dupleix asserts French power in India. 1756 Bengal Nawab Suraj-ud-daula conquers Calcutta. 1757 Battle of Plassey; British control of Bengal. 1761 Afghans defeat ...
الصفحة xxxiii
... Shah Bano decision on status of women under Muslim per- sonal law. 1989 V. P. Singh takes office with Janata Dal party; Mandal Com- mission report; Kashmir insurgency begins. 1990 Clashes with Kashmiri activists leads to years of ...
... Shah Bano decision on status of women under Muslim per- sonal law. 1989 V. P. Singh takes office with Janata Dal party; Mandal Com- mission report; Kashmir insurgency begins. 1990 Clashes with Kashmiri activists leads to years of ...
الصفحة 1
... Shah Jahan's (r. 1627–58) elegant, riverside city, in the year 1707 (plate 1.1). News had come of the death of Shah Jahan's long-ruling son, Aurangzeb (r. 1658–1707) in the distant Deccan, where he had been engaged in arduously ...
... Shah Jahan's (r. 1627–58) elegant, riverside city, in the year 1707 (plate 1.1). News had come of the death of Shah Jahan's long-ruling son, Aurangzeb (r. 1658–1707) in the distant Deccan, where he had been engaged in arduously ...
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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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