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 xxiv
... religious studies Vaisya The varna or status category identified in the classical Sanskrit tradition as businessmen and merchants and as men entitled to perform sacrifices varna The four ideal hierarchic categories comprising human ...
... religious studies Vaisya The varna or status category identified in the classical Sanskrit tradition as businessmen and merchants and as men entitled to perform sacrifices varna The four ideal hierarchic categories comprising human ...
الصفحة xxxi
... Religions; Tilak establishes Ganapati festival; rioting over cow protection. 1896 Plague in Bombay. 1899 Curzon arrives as viceroy (to 1905). 1901 Punjab Land Alienation Act prohibits transfer outside agricul— tural classes. 1905 ...
... Religions; Tilak establishes Ganapati festival; rioting over cow protection. 1896 Plague in Bombay. 1899 Curzon arrives as viceroy (to 1905). 1901 Punjab Land Alienation Act prohibits transfer outside agricul— tural classes. 1905 ...
الصفحة 3
... religious institutions. These changes, not some stagnant society, form the prelude to the colonial era. Nor, one might add, did Muslim rulers fit the caricature assigned them. It is, for instance, misleading to speak of them as 'foreign ...
... religious institutions. These changes, not some stagnant society, form the prelude to the colonial era. Nor, one might add, did Muslim rulers fit the caricature assigned them. It is, for instance, misleading to speak of them as 'foreign ...
الصفحة 4
... religious practices, like mass conversion, that did not exist. Successive Turko—Afghan regimes, collectively known as the Delhi Sultanate, dominated political life in the north, with periodic incursions into the south, during the late ...
... religious practices, like mass conversion, that did not exist. Successive Turko—Afghan regimes, collectively known as the Delhi Sultanate, dominated political life in the north, with periodic incursions into the south, during the late ...
الصفحة 5
... religious styles. They also brought practical innovations in mounted warfare, cropping pat— terns, and irrigation techniques, like the widespread 'Persian' wheel. They fostered urban growth and road networks that encouraged trade within ...
... religious styles. They also brought practical innovations in mounted warfare, cropping pat— terns, and irrigation techniques, like the widespread 'Persian' wheel. They fostered urban growth and road networks that encouraged trade within ...
المحتوى
| 1 | |
The emergence of regional states and the East India | 29 |
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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| العنوان | A Concise History of Modern India Cambridge Concise Histories |
| المؤلفون | Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf |
| الإصدار | 3, تمت مراجعته |
| الناشر | Cambridge University Press, 2012 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 1139537059, 9781139537056 |
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