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 xxiii
... founder or head of a sufi order or shrine presidency The residence of a 'president'; here used for the three East India Company centres of Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta established in the seventeenth century raja 'Ruler'.
... founder or head of a sufi order or shrine presidency The residence of a 'president'; here used for the three East India Company centres of Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta established in the seventeenth century raja 'Ruler'.
الصفحة xxiv
Also see hhalzti sufi Those who cultivate the inner dimension of Islam through moral practices, disciplines, and association with sufi masters who act as guides, teachers, and mediators; a 'mystic' Sunni The majority of Muslims who ...
Also see hhalzti sufi Those who cultivate the inner dimension of Islam through moral practices, disciplines, and association with sufi masters who act as guides, teachers, and mediators; a 'mystic' Sunni The majority of Muslims who ...
الصفحة 4
Muslim rulers patronized not only the learned legal scholars, or 'ulama, who had mastered the sacred Arabic texts, but also the moral guides and spiritual intermediaries, the sufi shaikhs. These two bodies of specialists had emerged as ...
Muslim rulers patronized not only the learned legal scholars, or 'ulama, who had mastered the sacred Arabic texts, but also the moral guides and spiritual intermediaries, the sufi shaikhs. These two bodies of specialists had emerged as ...
الصفحة 6
Historians have long asserted that converts flocked to the sufi message of equality to escape the hierarchic discriminations of a ... Nor, perhaps surprisingly, did the sufis themselves ever teach that Islam offered social equality.
Historians have long asserted that converts flocked to the sufi message of equality to escape the hierarchic discriminations of a ... Nor, perhaps surprisingly, did the sufis themselves ever teach that Islam offered social equality.
الصفحة 7
In areas undergoing agrarian settlement, sufis did nevertheless play a key role as agents of gradual incorporation into the larger cul— tural and civilizational structures of the day. They received grants of forested land whose clearing ...
In areas undergoing agrarian settlement, sufis did nevertheless play a key role as agents of gradual incorporation into the larger cul— tural and civilizational structures of the day. They received grants of forested land whose clearing ...
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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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