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 i
... tradition to the contrary, no enduring meaning can be given to categories such as 'caste', 'Hindu', 'Muslim', or even 'India'. BARBARA D . M ETCA LF is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Davis. Her ...
... tradition to the contrary, no enduring meaning can be given to categories such as 'caste', 'Hindu', 'Muslim', or even 'India'. BARBARA D . M ETCA LF is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Davis. Her ...
الصفحة xxi
... tradition as most pure and entitled to perform priestly duties Buddhist A follower of Gautama Buddha (b. 560 B.c.) ... Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad's sayings and actions hartal Closing of all shops in a market as a xxi Glossary.
... tradition as most pure and entitled to perform priestly duties Buddhist A follower of Gautama Buddha (b. 560 B.c.) ... Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad's sayings and actions hartal Closing of all shops in a market as a xxi Glossary.
الصفحة xxii
... tradition as those entitled to exercise military power and perform sacrifices mansab A rank within the Mughal state system, carrying with it the obligation to supply horsemen in a number commensurate with the rank; the holder of a ...
... tradition as those entitled to exercise military power and perform sacrifices mansab A rank within the Mughal state system, carrying with it the obligation to supply horsemen in a number commensurate with the rank; the holder of a ...
الصفحة xxiii
... traditional gathering of five (panch) elders Parsi see Zoroastrian Persian The literary and government language of the ... tradition cultivated by Brahmans satyagraha 'Truth force', a Gandhian neologism to describe his method of dispute ...
... traditional gathering of five (panch) elders Parsi see Zoroastrian Persian The literary and government language of the ... tradition cultivated by Brahmans satyagraha 'Truth force', a Gandhian neologism to describe his method of dispute ...
الصفحة xxiv
... 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, q.v.) in the Brahmanic Sanskritic traditions ...
... 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, q.v.) in the Brahmanic Sanskritic traditions ...
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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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