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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... leader Ambedkar. dalit 'Down-trodden', term used by former untouchables to describe their community. Has replaced Gandhi's term harijan 'Children of God' in recent decades. darhar Royal audience, hall of audience, court; executive ...
... leader Ambedkar. dalit 'Down-trodden', term used by former untouchables to describe their community. Has replaced Gandhi's term harijan 'Children of God' in recent decades. darhar Royal audience, hall of audience, court; executive ...
الصفحة xxii
... leader; among Shi'a, venerated male descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, whose succession terminated after twelve incumbents for the majority of Shi'a followers, after seven for several smaller sects jagir The right to the assessed tax ...
... leader; among Shi'a, venerated male descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, whose succession terminated after twelve incumbents for the majority of Shi'a followers, after seven for several smaller sects jagir The right to the assessed tax ...
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... leader of INA in Singapore. 1946 Elections give Congress and Muslim League overwhelm— ing victories in Hindu and in Muslim majority areas; Cabinet Mission seeks compromise; Calcutta Killing initiates a cycle of violence. 1 947 India ...
... leader of INA in Singapore. 1946 Elections give Congress and Muslim League overwhelm— ing victories in Hindu and in Muslim majority areas; Cabinet Mission seeks compromise; Calcutta Killing initiates a cycle of violence. 1 947 India ...
الصفحة 3
... leadership, scientific progress, and professed tutelage to independence. This tripartite schema was explicit in much British writing, and it often underlay even anti—colonial Indian nationalist historiography. Even today it has been ...
... leadership, scientific progress, and professed tutelage to independence. This tripartite schema was explicit in much British writing, and it often underlay even anti—colonial Indian nationalist historiography. Even today it has been ...
الصفحة 4
... leaders. Like non—Muslim rulers, they did not gain their authority through their own holiness or sacred learning but through their military and governing skill. They were expected, however, to patronize those who were holy and learned ...
... leaders. Like non—Muslim rulers, they did not gain their authority through their own holiness or sacred learning but through their military and governing skill. They were expected, however, to patronize those who were holy and learned ...
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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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