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
... periods , not to mention the eighteenth century , we did not consider revision necessary at this point . Chapter ... period from 1990 to 2010 as one continuous narrative . An attempt has been made , furthermore , to reorganize the ...
... periods , not to mention the eighteenth century , we did not consider revision necessary at this point . Chapter ... period from 1990 to 2010 as one continuous narrative . An attempt has been made , furthermore , to reorganize the ...
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... periods as warrior princes and frequent allies of the Mughals sabha Association or society; assembly, council, court Sanskrit An Indo-European language which emerged in ancient times as the sacred language of legal and ritual tradition ...
... periods as warrior princes and frequent allies of the Mughals sabha Association or society; assembly, council, court Sanskrit An Indo-European language which emerged in ancient times as the sacred language of legal and ritual tradition ...
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... period reject the earlier characterizations of the period of the Muslim dynas- ties. They also argue, perhaps surprisingly, in relation to the eigh- teenth century, that it was the culmination of long-term transitions in trade, finance ...
... period reject the earlier characterizations of the period of the Muslim dynas- ties. They also argue, perhaps surprisingly, in relation to the eigh- teenth century, that it was the culmination of long-term transitions in trade, finance ...
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... period as an 'Islamic world system' of economic and political interaction. In this system, the Indian subcontinent played a significant part. Participation in these ruling and trading networks did not require that individuals be Muslims ...
... period as an 'Islamic world system' of economic and political interaction. In this system, the Indian subcontinent played a significant part. Participation in these ruling and trading networks did not require that individuals be Muslims ...
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... Brahmanical influence in the pre-colonial period, in any case, is increasingly contested. Nor, perhaps surprisingly, did the sufis themselves ever teach that Islam offered social equality. Indeed, how- 6 A Concise History of Modern India.
... Brahmanical influence in the pre-colonial period, in any case, is increasingly contested. Nor, perhaps surprisingly, did the sufis themselves ever teach that Islam offered social equality. Indeed, how- 6 A Concise History of Modern India.
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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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