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 xiv
... tion, with growing affluence in the cities but profound disadvantage for others. Among the most depressed are the largely tribal popu- lations of interior central and eastern India, where there has been endemic violence in recent years ...
... tion, with growing affluence in the cities but profound disadvantage for others. Among the most depressed are the largely tribal popu- lations of interior central and eastern India, where there has been endemic violence in recent years ...
الصفحة xxiv
... tion; required to perform services for the three higher and pure varnas Sikh A 'Disciple', used in this case for the followers of the path (panth) of the teacher Guru Nanak. Also see bhakti sufi Those who cultivate the inner dimension ...
... tion; required to perform services for the three higher and pure varnas Sikh A 'Disciple', used in this case for the followers of the path (panth) of the teacher Guru Nanak. Also see bhakti sufi Those who cultivate the inner dimension ...
الصفحة xxviii
... tion , karma , and complex cosmologies . 327-325 B.C. Invasion by Alexander the Great . 268–233 B.C. Reign of Ashoka Maurya , peak of the Mauryan Empire , based in the north - east but with influence throughout the subcontinent . He ...
... tion , karma , and complex cosmologies . 327-325 B.C. Invasion by Alexander the Great . 268–233 B.C. Reign of Ashoka Maurya , peak of the Mauryan Empire , based in the north - east but with influence throughout the subcontinent . He ...
الصفحة xxxii
... tion. 1942 Cripps Mission; 'Quit India' Movement. 1943 Bengal Famine; Subhas Chandra Bose leader of INA in Singapore. 1946 Elections give Congress and Muslim League overwhelm- ing victories in Hindu and in Muslim majority areas; Cabinet ...
... tion. 1942 Cripps Mission; 'Quit India' Movement. 1943 Bengal Famine; Subhas Chandra Bose leader of INA in Singapore. 1946 Elections give Congress and Muslim League overwhelm- ing victories in Hindu and in Muslim majority areas; Cabinet ...
الصفحة 14
... tion. Babur was a scion of both Timur ('Tamerlane', 1336–1405) on his father's side and the Mongol Chingiz Khan (1167?–1227) on his mother's. It was the former lineage the dynasty cherished and it is, thus, an irony of history that ...
... tion. Babur was a scion of both Timur ('Tamerlane', 1336–1405) on his father's side and the Mongol Chingiz Khan (1167?–1227) on his mother's. It was the former lineage the dynasty cherished and it is, thus, an irony of history that ...
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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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