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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الصفحة vii
List of illustrations page iX Preface to the third edition Xiii Preface to the first edition XV Glossary XXi Chronology XXvii I Sultans, Mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society 1 2 Mughal twilight: The emergence of regional states and ...
List of illustrations page iX Preface to the third edition Xiii Preface to the first edition XV Glossary XXi Chronology XXvii I Sultans, Mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society 1 2 Mughal twilight: The emergence of regional states and ...
الصفحة xxii
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, ...
الصفحة xxiii
Rajput clans, based in northern and north-western India, emerged in the medieval and Mughal periods as warrior princes and frequent allies of the Mughals sahha Association or society; assembly, council, court Sanskrit An Indo-European ...
Rajput clans, based in northern and north-western India, emerged in the medieval and Mughal periods as warrior princes and frequent allies of the Mughals sahha Association or society; assembly, council, court Sanskrit An Indo-European ...
الصفحة xxiv
... identified in the classical Sanskrit tradition as businessmen and merchants and as men entitled to perform sacrifices varna The four ideal hierarchic categories comprising human society (Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Shudra, ...
... identified in the classical Sanskrit tradition as businessmen and merchants and as men entitled to perform sacrifices varna The four ideal hierarchic categories comprising human society (Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Shudra, ...
الصفحة xxviii
He converts to Buddhism after his conquest of Kalinga (261); Buddhist missions begin in South Asia, spread to East and South—East Asia. c. zoo B.c.—zoo C.E. Sanskrit 'sastras' describe ideal society of four hierarchic classes: Brahmans ...
He converts to Buddhism after his conquest of Kalinga (261); Buddhist missions begin in South Asia, spread to East and South—East Asia. c. zoo B.c.—zoo C.E. Sanskrit 'sastras' describe ideal society of four hierarchic classes: Brahmans ...
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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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