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 xviii
... Movements of peoples outwards from India into Central Asia also took place, most notably those of Buddhist pil- grims and teachers to Tibet and China, as well as traders in luxury goods. The two arms of the Indian Ocean – the Bay of ...
... Movements of peoples outwards from India into Central Asia also took place, most notably those of Buddhist pil- grims and teachers to Tibet and China, as well as traders in luxury goods. The two arms of the Indian Ocean – the Bay of ...
الصفحة xxii
... Movement', an organization that sought to secure the position of the Ottoman sultan as spiritual leader of all Muslims Kshatriya The varna or status category identified in the classical Sanskrit tradition as those entitled to exercise ...
... Movement', an organization that sought to secure the position of the Ottoman sultan as spiritual leader of all Muslims Kshatriya The varna or status category identified in the classical Sanskrit tradition as those entitled to exercise ...
الصفحة xxvii
... movements from Central Asia. Ritual texts, the Vedas, in the Sanskrit language (linguistically linked to Iranian and European languages), preserved by Brahman priests over centuries and gradually carried east and south. Texts describe ...
... movements from Central Asia. Ritual texts, the Vedas, in the Sanskrit language (linguistically linked to Iranian and European languages), preserved by Brahman priests over centuries and gradually carried east and south. Texts describe ...
الصفحة xxxi
... movement begins; Gokhale founds Servants of India Society. 1906 Muslim League founded. 1907 Tata Iron and Steel Company founded. 1909 Indian Councils Act; Gandhi publishes 'Hind Swaraj'. 1911 Partition of Bengal undone; Delhi made ...
... movement begins; Gokhale founds Servants of India Society. 1906 Muslim League founded. 1907 Tata Iron and Steel Company founded. 1909 Indian Councils Act; Gandhi publishes 'Hind Swaraj'. 1911 Partition of Bengal undone; Delhi made ...
الصفحة xxxii
... Movement. 1943 Bengal Famine; Subhas Chandra Bose leader of INA in Singapore. 1946 Elections give Congress and Muslim League overwhelm- ing victories in Hindu and in Muslim majority areas; Cabinet Mission seeks compromise; Calcutta ...
... Movement. 1943 Bengal Famine; Subhas Chandra Bose leader of INA in Singapore. 1946 Elections give Congress and Muslim League overwhelm- ing victories in Hindu and in Muslim majority areas; Cabinet Mission seeks compromise; Calcutta ...
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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