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 xxi
... Brahman The varna or status category identified in the classical Sanskrit tradition as most pure and entitled to perform priestly duties Buddhist A follower of Gautama Buddha (b. 560 B.c.). Like Mahavira Jain, he rejected the authority ...
... Brahman The varna or status category identified in the classical Sanskrit tradition as most pure and entitled to perform priestly duties Buddhist A follower of Gautama Buddha (b. 560 B.c.). Like Mahavira Jain, he rejected the authority ...
الصفحة xxiii
... Brahman; passes into English as 'pundit', an expert or authority on some subject panchayat Council, court for ... Brahmans satyagraha 'Truth force', a Gandhian neologism to describe his method of dispute settlement based on a shared ...
... Brahman; passes into English as 'pundit', an expert or authority on some subject panchayat Council, court for ... Brahmans satyagraha 'Truth force', a Gandhian neologism to describe his method of dispute settlement based on a shared ...
الصفحة xxiv
... (Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Shudra, q.v.) in the Brahmanic Sanskritic traditions, articulated above all in the dharmasastra texts of Manu at the turn of the first millennium yogi A Hindu ascetic who practices disciplines intended to ...
... (Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Shudra, q.v.) in the Brahmanic Sanskritic traditions, articulated above all in the dharmasastra texts of Manu at the turn of the first millennium yogi A Hindu ascetic who practices disciplines intended to ...
الصفحة xxvii
... Brahman priests over centuries and gradually carried east and south. Texts describe bronze tools, horses, complex cosmology. c. 900-800 B.C. The epics Ramayana and the Mahabharata recount tales of kingdoms and warfare; they have been ...
... Brahman priests over centuries and gradually carried east and south. Texts describe bronze tools, horses, complex cosmology. c. 900-800 B.C. The epics Ramayana and the Mahabharata recount tales of kingdoms and warfare; they have been ...
الصفحة xxviii
... Brahman sages compose Upanishads. All three philosophies pursue concepts of reincarna— tion, karma, and complex ... Brahmans ritually superior, above warriors, farm— ers and merchants, and workers and servants. Indo—Greeks, Shakas ...
... Brahman sages compose Upanishads. All three philosophies pursue concepts of reincarna— tion, karma, and complex ... Brahmans ritually superior, above warriors, farm— ers and merchants, and workers and servants. Indo—Greeks, Shakas ...
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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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