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 xii
... Lord Ram . Courtesy of India Today , 15 May 1991 . 9.4 Statue of B. R. Ambedkar under construction , Varanasi . Photograph by Thomas Metcalf . 276 9.5 5:30 P.M. on the Gurgaon Expressway . Photograph by Thomas Metcalf . 9.6 Army officer ...
... Lord Ram . Courtesy of India Today , 15 May 1991 . 9.4 Statue of B. R. Ambedkar under construction , Varanasi . Photograph by Thomas Metcalf . 276 9.5 5:30 P.M. on the Gurgaon Expressway . Photograph by Thomas Metcalf . 9.6 Army officer ...
الصفحة xxvii
... Lord'), in which the god Krishna explains Duty and Reality to Arjuna, a warrior-hero. In the Ramayana ('Rama's Way'), Rama (later considered a reincarnation of Vishnu), his wife Sita, and his brother Lakshaman choose forest exile when ...
... Lord'), in which the god Krishna explains Duty and Reality to Arjuna, a warrior-hero. In the Ramayana ('Rama's Way'), Rama (later considered a reincarnation of Vishnu), his wife Sita, and his brother Lakshaman choose forest exile when ...
الصفحة xxx
... held by Lord Lytton. 1878 Afghan War; Vernacular Press Act. 1882 Liberal viceroy Ripon enacts local self-government for munic- ipalities. 1884 Ilbert Bill guarantees Europeans trial by jury. 1885 Indian xxx Chronology.
... held by Lord Lytton. 1878 Afghan War; Vernacular Press Act. 1882 Liberal viceroy Ripon enacts local self-government for munic- ipalities. 1884 Ilbert Bill guarantees Europeans trial by jury. 1885 Indian xxx Chronology.
الصفحة 5
... lords, in similar fashion patronized Brahmans. The Brahmans both cultivated ritual and legal learning as recorded in the sacred Sanskrit texts, and played roles in the temple cults where devotional piety (bhakti) flourished in the ...
... lords, in similar fashion patronized Brahmans. The Brahmans both cultivated ritual and legal learning as recorded in the sacred Sanskrit texts, and played roles in the temple cults where devotional piety (bhakti) flourished in the ...
الصفحة 12
... Lord Shiva, as an ideology that sharply distinguished them from the Sultanate and Bahmanids. That kingdom emulated ... lord of men (infantry); and the Gajapatis (along the Orissan coast) as 'lords of the elephants'. Despite the ...
... Lord Shiva, as an ideology that sharply distinguished them from the Sultanate and Bahmanids. That kingdom emulated ... lord of men (infantry); and the Gajapatis (along the Orissan coast) as 'lords of the elephants'. Despite the ...
المحتوى
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The emergence of regional states and the East India | 29 |
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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