A Concise History of Modern IndiaA 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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These latter events, in Greenough's view, proved most evocative in stirring recollections of the past, and so reveal a more 'subaltern' history than the official or textbook version. Yet, we would argue, in multi— ple ways the lives of ...
These latter events, in Greenough's view, proved most evocative in stirring recollections of the past, and so reveal a more 'subaltern' history than the official or textbook version. Yet, we would argue, in multi— ple ways the lives of ...
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2010 Scandal over awarding of telecom contracts implicates top officials of the Singh government in corrupt practices. 1 Sultans, Mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society Imagine a time xxxiv Chronology.
2010 Scandal over awarding of telecom contracts implicates top officials of the Singh government in corrupt practices. 1 Sultans, Mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society Imagine a time xxxiv Chronology.
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This ideology also encompassed lower—level military and scribal officials, largely non-Muslim. Loyalty was focused on the person of the ruler, the apex of a pyramid of vertical bonds. Akbar's chief memoirist and publicist, Abu'l Fazl, ...
This ideology also encompassed lower—level military and scribal officials, largely non-Muslim. Loyalty was focused on the person of the ruler, the apex of a pyramid of vertical bonds. Akbar's chief memoirist and publicist, Abu'l Fazl, ...
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Mughal officials typically negotiated for delivery of the revenue demand with lineage heads and chieftains, homogenized in Mughal usage as zamindars (land—holders). At the bottom of this hierarchy were the peasant cultivators.
Mughal officials typically negotiated for delivery of the revenue demand with lineage heads and chieftains, homogenized in Mughal usage as zamindars (land—holders). At the bottom of this hierarchy were the peasant cultivators.
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He patronized Islamic leaders and sites; he restored policies that applied differen— tial taxes on Hindus (not incidentally a source of revenue for his hard—pressed regime); and he favoured Muslims for official employment.
He patronized Islamic leaders and sites; he restored policies that applied differen— tial taxes on Hindus (not incidentally a source of revenue for his hard—pressed regime); and he favoured Muslims for official employment.
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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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