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 vii
... emergence of regional states and the East India Company 3 The East India Company Raj , 1772-1850 I 29 990 56 4 Revolt , the modern state , and colonized subjects , 1848-1885 92 5 Civil society , colonial constraints , 1885-1919 123 6 ...
... emergence of regional states and the East India Company 3 The East India Company Raj , 1772-1850 I 29 990 56 4 Revolt , the modern state , and colonized subjects , 1848-1885 92 5 Civil society , colonial constraints , 1885-1919 123 6 ...
الصفحة xxiii
... emerged in the medieval and Mughal periods as warrior princes and frequent allies of the Mughals sabha Association or society; assembly, council, court Sanskrit An Indo-European language which emerged in ancient times as the sacred ...
... emerged in the medieval and Mughal periods as warrior princes and frequent allies of the Mughals sabha Association or society; assembly, council, court Sanskrit An Indo-European language which emerged in ancient times as the sacred ...
الصفحة 4
... ulama , who had mastered the sacred Arabic texts , but also the moral guides and spiritual intermediaries , the sufi shaikhs . These two bodies of specialists had emerged as the foci 4 A Concise History of Modern India.
... ulama , who had mastered the sacred Arabic texts , but also the moral guides and spiritual intermediaries , the sufi shaikhs . These two bodies of specialists had emerged as the foci 4 A Concise History of Modern India.
الصفحة 7
... emerge with largely Muslim populations, western Punjab and eastern Bengal. In other areas Hindu religious specialists per- formed much the same role. In the Telugu region of south-east India, for example, as Cynthia Talbot has shown ...
... emerge with largely Muslim populations, western Punjab and eastern Bengal. In other areas Hindu religious specialists per- formed much the same role. In the Telugu region of south-east India, for example, as Cynthia Talbot has shown ...
الصفحة 8
... EMERGENCE oF REGioNAL kiNGDoMS By the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the Sultanate in the north had given way to a series of regional kingdoms, Gujarat, Malwa, Jaunpur, Delhi itself, and Bengal. In the Deccan and Map 1 India c ...
... EMERGENCE oF REGioNAL kiNGDoMS By the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the Sultanate in the north had given way to a series of regional kingdoms, Gujarat, Malwa, Jaunpur, Delhi itself, and Bengal. In the Deccan and Map 1 India c ...
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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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