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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... Bombay. Courtesy of the Ames Library, University of Minnesota. Workers on the Uganda railway. By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Book jackets for publications by Kipling. Courtesy of the Library of the ...
... Bombay. Courtesy of the Ames Library, University of Minnesota. Workers on the Uganda railway. By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Book jackets for publications by Kipling. Courtesy of the Library of the ...
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... (Bombay: Bombay Swadeshi League, 193 1). With thanks to Lisa Trivedi, who brought this illustration to our attention. Jawaharlal Nehru (left) and M. A. Jinnah (right) at the Simla conference. By permission of the British Library (134/2 ...
... (Bombay: Bombay Swadeshi League, 193 1). With thanks to Lisa Trivedi, who brought this illustration to our attention. Jawaharlal Nehru (left) and M. A. Jinnah (right) at the Simla conference. By permission of the British Library (134/2 ...
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... Bombay ]at A north Indian peasant and agriculturist community ]esuit A member of the Society of Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church, founded by St Ignatius Loyola in 1 534; present in India from its earliest years with the establish ...
... Bombay ]at A north Indian peasant and agriculturist community ]esuit A member of the Society of Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church, founded by St Ignatius Loyola in 1 534; present in India from its earliest years with the establish ...
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... Bombay, and Calcutta established in the seventeenth century raja 'Ruler'. A title widely used in British India not only for princes but for chiefs, zamindars, and other powerholders; customarily (but not always) confined to Hindus ...
... Bombay, and Calcutta established in the seventeenth century raja 'Ruler'. A title widely used in British India not only for princes but for chiefs, zamindars, and other powerholders; customarily (but not always) confined to Hindus ...
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... Cities with. British usage Banaras Bombay Calcutta Cawnpore Ceylon Dacca Ganges Jumna Madras Oudh Poona Simla Contemporary usage Varanasi Mumbai Kolkata Kanpur Sri Lanka Dhaka Ganga Yamuna Chennai Awadh Pune Shimla Glossary xxv.
... Cities with. British usage Banaras Bombay Calcutta Cawnpore Ceylon Dacca Ganges Jumna Madras Oudh Poona Simla Contemporary usage Varanasi Mumbai Kolkata Kanpur Sri Lanka Dhaka Ganga Yamuna Chennai Awadh Pune Shimla Glossary xxv.
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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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