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 xv
... subcontinent was split into the two independent countries of India and Pakistan, and of the Republic of India thereafter. (The history of Pakistan and, after 1971, of Bangladesh, is taken up in a separate volume in this series.) In this ...
... subcontinent was split into the two independent countries of India and Pakistan, and of the Republic of India thereafter. (The history of Pakistan and, after 1971, of Bangladesh, is taken up in a separate volume in this series.) In this ...
الصفحة xvii
... subcontinent have shaped its history in funda- mental ways . Its size some 2,000 miles from east to west , and another 2,000 miles from north to south - calls into question the label of ' subcontinent ' given it by European mapmakers ...
... subcontinent have shaped its history in funda- mental ways . Its size some 2,000 miles from east to west , and another 2,000 miles from north to south - calls into question the label of ' subcontinent ' given it by European mapmakers ...
الصفحة xviii
... subcontinent in the centuries around1000 b.c., bringing with them a language, the Indo-European, that also spread westwards into much of Europe. As a result, the languages that developed in northern and central India share fundamental ...
... subcontinent in the centuries around1000 b.c., bringing with them a language, the Indo-European, that also spread westwards into much of Europe. As a result, the languages that developed in northern and central India share fundamental ...
الصفحة xix
... subcontinent . Our volume begins with an examination of the centuries immediately preceding the colonial presence . We wish to express our appreciation to a number of institutions which have made their facilities available to us during ...
... subcontinent . Our volume begins with an examination of the centuries immediately preceding the colonial presence . We wish to express our appreciation to a number of institutions which have made their facilities available to us during ...
الصفحة xxi
... subcontinent by the tenth century. It was revived in the mid-twentieth century by the 'untouchable' leader Ambedkar. dalit 'Down-trodden', term used by former untouchables to describe their community. Has replaced Gandhi's term harijan ...
... subcontinent by the tenth century. It was revived in the mid-twentieth century by the 'untouchable' leader Ambedkar. dalit 'Down-trodden', term used by former untouchables to describe their community. Has replaced Gandhi's term harijan ...
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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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