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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Particularly successful in business, Jains are a small community resident mostly in Gujarat and Bombay ]at A north Indian peasant and agriculturist community ]esuit A member of the Society of Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church, ...
Particularly successful in business, Jains are a small community resident mostly in Gujarat and Bombay ]at A north Indian peasant and agriculturist community ]esuit A member of the Society of Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church, ...
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At the bottom of this hierarchy were the peasant cultivators. Their condition under the Mughals has been a subject of controversy. In his classic study of the Mughal agrarian system, Irfan Habib concluded that the cultivating peasantry, ...
At the bottom of this hierarchy were the peasant cultivators. Their condition under the Mughals has been a subject of controversy. In his classic study of the Mughal agrarian system, Irfan Habib concluded that the cultivating peasantry, ...
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A major stimulus to the use of the Sanskrit categories appears to have been the claims of aspiring dynasts in the Mughal period who, as parvenu kshatriya, in turn identified peasants and soldiery as ranked groups, giving new meanings to ...
A major stimulus to the use of the Sanskrit categories appears to have been the claims of aspiring dynasts in the Mughal period who, as parvenu kshatriya, in turn identified peasants and soldiery as ranked groups, giving new meanings to ...
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... sovereign is the happiness of the people, the country prospers, the peasants are at ease, and people live in peace. ... often lineage heads and chieftains, who pos— sessed local knowledge, and control over peasant cultivators.
... sovereign is the happiness of the people, the country prospers, the peasants are at ease, and people live in peace. ... often lineage heads and chieftains, who pos— sessed local knowledge, and control over peasant cultivators.
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The eighteenth—century states welcomed European adventurers to train these new units of professional soldiers, who, unlike peasants conscripted by noble overlords for limited periods, were now full—time mercenary troopers.
The eighteenth—century states welcomed European adventurers to train these new units of professional soldiers, who, unlike peasants conscripted by noble overlords for limited periods, were now full—time mercenary troopers.
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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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| العنوان | A Concise History of Modern India Cambridge Concise Histories |
| المؤلفون | Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf |
| الإصدار | 3, تمت مراجعته |
| الناشر | Cambridge University Press, 2012 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 1139537059, 9781139537056 |
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