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 xix
... area between Ganges and Jamuna; and farthest to the east, where the Brahmaputra joins it from Tibet, the fertile ... areas of the subcontinent. Our volume begins with an examination of the centuries immediately preceding the colonial ...
... area between Ganges and Jamuna; and farthest to the east, where the Brahmaputra joins it from Tibet, the fertile ... areas of the subcontinent. Our volume begins with an examination of the centuries immediately preceding the colonial ...
الصفحة xxi
... area under the Mughals; diwani, civil or revenue administration factor A commercial agent, here of the East India Company, resident in India; the term 'factory' denoted a warehouse for storing trade goods farmer A revenue term used for ...
... area under the Mughals; diwani, civil or revenue administration factor A commercial agent, here of the East India Company, resident in India; the term 'factory' denoted a warehouse for storing trade goods farmer A revenue term used for ...
الصفحة xxxii
... areas; Cabinet Mission seeks compromise; Calcutta Killing initiates a cycle of violence. 1 947 India wins independence from Britain and is partitioned, cre— ating a new India and the 'Muslim Homeland' of Pakistan. Up to a million people ...
... areas; Cabinet Mission seeks compromise; Calcutta Killing initiates a cycle of violence. 1 947 India wins independence from Britain and is partitioned, cre— ating a new India and the 'Muslim Homeland' of Pakistan. Up to a million people ...
الصفحة 2
... 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, as this new century turned, had lately come to a vision of creating an empire ...
... 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, as this new century turned, had lately come to a vision of creating an empire ...
الصفحة 4
... area of settled Indic civi— lization whether from distant areas or nearby jungles. The core military and economic institutions of these dynasties were thus not specifically 'Islamic'. The sultans themselves were not religious leaders ...
... area of settled Indic civi— lization whether from distant areas or nearby jungles. The core military and economic institutions of these dynasties were thus not specifically 'Islamic'. The sultans themselves were not religious leaders ...
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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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