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 xxi
... revenue administration factor A commercial agent, here of the East India Company, resident in India; the term 'factory' denoted a warehouse for storing trade goods farmer A revenue term used for a person who bids to secure the right to ...
... revenue administration factor A commercial agent, here of the East India Company, resident in India; the term 'factory' denoted a warehouse for storing trade goods farmer A revenue term used for a person who bids to secure the right to ...
الصفحة xxii
... revenue of a piece of land, given for a limited term by the Mughals as a reward for service; the holder of a jagir is a jagirdar ]ain A follower of Mahavira (b. 599 13.0) who, like the Buddha, rejected the authority of Brahmanic ritual ...
... revenue of a piece of land, given for a limited term by the Mughals as a reward for service; the holder of a jagir is a jagirdar ]ain A follower of Mahavira (b. 599 13.0) who, like the Buddha, rejected the authority of Brahmanic ritual ...
الصفحة xxiii
... revenue term used in the context of agricultural taxation to specify an agreement with an individual or group for the responsibility to pay a fixed amount of tax on a given tract of land; often carried with it effective ownership of the ...
... revenue term used in the context of agricultural taxation to specify an agreement with an individual or group for the responsibility to pay a fixed amount of tax on a given tract of land; often carried with it effective ownership of the ...
الصفحة xxiv
... revenue or tax claim to the government zenana The women's quarters of an Indian household Zoroastrian A follower of the Iranian teacher Zoroaster (b. 660 B.c.), roughly con— temporary with the Buddha, Mahavira Jain, and the authors of ...
... revenue or tax claim to the government zenana The women's quarters of an Indian household Zoroastrian A follower of the Iranian teacher Zoroaster (b. 660 B.c.), roughly con— temporary with the Buddha, Mahavira Jain, and the authors of ...
الصفحة xxix
... Buxar (Baksar). 1765 Emperor awards the British revenue—collecting rights (dnvani) over Bengal. 1772 Warren Hastings appointed first governor—general. 1783 India Act establishes Board of Control. 1784 Asiatic Society Chronology xxix.
... Buxar (Baksar). 1765 Emperor awards the British revenue—collecting rights (dnvani) over Bengal. 1772 Warren Hastings appointed first governor—general. 1783 India Act establishes Board of Control. 1784 Asiatic Society Chronology xxix.
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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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