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
... language, the Indo-European, that also spread westwards into much of Europe. As a result, the languages that developed in northern and central India share fundamental linguistic patterns with those of many European countries. Greeks ...
... language, the Indo-European, that also spread westwards into much of Europe. As a result, the languages that developed in northern and central India share fundamental linguistic patterns with those of many European countries. Greeks ...
الصفحة xix
... languages , and cultures . Paralleling the Himalaya are the rivers of the Gangetic plain , which unite to form the sacred ' Ganga ' , flow- ing from the north - west to the south - east into the Bay of Bengal . A rich agricultural zone ...
... languages , and cultures . Paralleling the Himalaya are the rivers of the Gangetic plain , which unite to form the sacred ' Ganga ' , flow- ing from the north - west to the south - east into the Bay of Bengal . A rich agricultural zone ...
الصفحة xxiii
... language which emerged in ancient times as the sacred language of legal and ritual tradition cultivated by Brahmans satyagraha 'Truth force', a Gandhian neologism to describe his method of dispute settlement based on a shared pursuit of ...
... language which emerged in ancient times as the sacred language of legal and ritual tradition cultivated by Brahmans satyagraha 'Truth force', a Gandhian neologism to describe his method of dispute settlement based on a shared pursuit of ...
الصفحة xxvii
... language (linguistically linked to Iranian and European languages), preserved by Brahman priests over centuries and gradually carried east and south. Texts describe bronze tools, horses, complex cosmology. c. 900–800 b.c. The epics ...
... language (linguistically linked to Iranian and European languages), preserved by Brahman priests over centuries and gradually carried east and south. Texts describe bronze tools, horses, complex cosmology. c. 900–800 b.c. The epics ...
الصفحة xxviii
... . Persian language and Islamic institutions patronized . 1297-1306 Delhi sultans repulse Mongol attacks and welcome refugees from Mongol raids . 1346–1565 Empire of Vijayanagar, in south India; raid of Delhi xxviii Chronology.
... . Persian language and Islamic institutions patronized . 1297-1306 Delhi sultans repulse Mongol attacks and welcome refugees from Mongol raids . 1346–1565 Empire of Vijayanagar, in south India; raid of Delhi xxviii Chronology.
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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