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
... agriculture is almost wholly dependent on these rains, which vary dramatically in their intensity, from 60 to 80 inches a year on the western and eastern coasts and the mountainous foothills to a mere 15 to 20 inches in the Punjab. Sind ...
... agriculture is almost wholly dependent on these rains, which vary dramatically in their intensity, from 60 to 80 inches a year on the western and eastern coasts and the mountainous foothills to a mere 15 to 20 inches in the Punjab. Sind ...
الصفحة xix
... agricultural zone , this region , known as ' Hindustan ' , was the heartland of northern empires and the goal ... agriculture in Bengal . Northern India is marked off from peninsular India , known as the Deccan , by ranges of low ...
... agricultural zone , this region , known as ' Hindustan ' , was the heartland of northern empires and the goal ... agriculture in Bengal . Northern India is marked off from peninsular India , known as the Deccan , by ranges of low ...
الصفحة xxiii
... agricultural taxation to specify an agreement with an individual or group for the responsibility to pay a fixed amount of tax on a given tract of land; often carried with it effective ownership of the land Shaikh (1) A title for a sufi ...
... agricultural taxation to specify an agreement with an individual or group for the responsibility to pay a fixed amount of tax on a given tract of land; often carried with it effective ownership of the land Shaikh (1) A title for a sufi ...
الصفحة 3
... agricultural frontier, extensive commercial networks, gradual technological change, and development of political and religious institutions. These changes, not some stagnant society, form the prelude to the colonial era. Nor, one might ...
... agricultural frontier, extensive commercial networks, gradual technological change, and development of political and religious institutions. These changes, not some stagnant society, form the prelude to the colonial era. Nor, one might ...
الصفحة 4
... agricultural surplus of the countryside . Like them , they possessed a fragmented political authority , with rights to a share of the land revenue of a specific area assigned to their subordinates as a form of compensation . Also like ...
... agricultural surplus of the countryside . Like them , they possessed a fragmented political authority , with rights to a share of the land revenue of a specific area assigned to their subordinates as a form of compensation . Also like ...
المحتوى
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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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