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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... peasant and agriculturist community Jesuit A member of the Society of Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church, founded by St Ignatius Loyola in 1534; present in India from its earliest years with the establish- ment of Portuguese trading ...
... peasant and agriculturist community Jesuit A member of the Society of Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church, founded by St Ignatius Loyola in 1534; present in India from its earliest years with the establish- ment of Portuguese trading ...
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... peasant cultivators. Their condition under the Mughals has been a subject of controversy. In his classic study of the Mughal agrarian system, Irfan Habib con- cluded that the cultivating peasantry, though not owners of the land, hence ...
... peasant cultivators. Their condition under the Mughals has been a subject of controversy. In his classic study of the Mughal agrarian system, Irfan Habib con- cluded that the cultivating peasantry, though not owners of the land, hence ...
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... peasants. Nor were 'sub- castes' or jati (endogamous groups identified by varna) the build- ing blocks of society. There was, in practice, far more importance given to occupational identities and individual mobility than most ...
... peasants. Nor were 'sub- castes' or jati (endogamous groups identified by varna) the build- ing blocks of society. There was, in practice, far more importance given to occupational identities and individual mobility than most ...
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... peasants are at ease , and people live in peace . The fear of the king's order seizes the hearts of high and ... peasant cultivators . They had amassed power as they grew in wealth during the prosperous seventeenth century , and ...
... peasants are at ease , and people live in peace . The fear of the king's order seizes the hearts of high and ... peasant cultivators . They had amassed power as they grew in wealth during the prosperous seventeenth century , and ...
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... peasants conscripted by noble overlords for limited periods , were now full - time mercenary troopers . Uniformed , they were trained to follow orders even under attack . By mid - century , Hydera- bad had contingents of French - led ...
... peasants conscripted by noble overlords for limited periods , were now full - time mercenary troopers . Uniformed , they were trained to follow orders even under attack . By mid - century , Hydera- bad had contingents of French - led ...
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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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