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 xiii
... reorganize the chapter in a thematic rather than wholly chronological fashion . Its two major sections assess successively the changing nature of India's politics , with special attention given to the rise of Hindu nationalism, and xiii.
... reorganize the chapter in a thematic rather than wholly chronological fashion . Its two major sections assess successively the changing nature of India's politics , with special attention given to the rise of Hindu nationalism, and xiii.
الصفحة xiv
... nationalism, and the growth and consequences of economic liberalization over the twenty years since the coming into office in 1991of the Narasimha Rao gov- ernment. We reflect in particular on a troubling economic polariza- tion, with ...
... nationalism, and the growth and consequences of economic liberalization over the twenty years since the coming into office in 1991of the Narasimha Rao gov- ernment. We reflect in particular on a troubling economic polariza- tion, with ...
الصفحة xv
... nationalism. The first histories of India, written from the early decades of the nineteenth century, were the handmaiden of British nationalism. They were subsequently challenged, and rewritten, by Indian nationalist historians. All ...
... nationalism. The first histories of India, written from the early decades of the nineteenth century, were the handmaiden of British nationalism. They were subsequently challenged, and rewritten, by Indian nationalist historians. All ...
الصفحة xvii
... nationalism , must be replaced by an under- standing of the newness of modern identities , and the new meanings infused into old terms ( ' caste ' , ' Hindu ' , ' Muslim ' , and even ' India ' itself ) . This is what the political ...
... nationalism , must be replaced by an under- standing of the newness of modern identities , and the new meanings infused into old terms ( ' caste ' , ' Hindu ' , ' Muslim ' , and even ' India ' itself ) . This is what the political ...
الصفحة xxiv
... nationalists to encourage the production and use of products made within India swaraj Self-rule, self-government 'ulama (sg: 'alim) Authorities learned in Islamic legal and religious studies Vaisya The varna or status category ...
... nationalists to encourage the production and use of products made within India swaraj Self-rule, self-government 'ulama (sg: 'alim) Authorities learned in Islamic legal and religious studies Vaisya The varna or status category ...
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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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