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. |
من داخل الكتاب
الصفحة xiv
... secure permissions for the illustra— tions and to create a new electronic text for the Press. In the prepa— ration of this edition we are grateful for the assistance of Hannah Archambault and Emma Kalb, and for discussions at Berkeley ...
... secure permissions for the illustra— tions and to create a new electronic text for the Press. In the prepa— ration of this edition we are grateful for the assistance of Hannah Archambault and Emma Kalb, and for discussions at Berkeley ...
الصفحة xxii
... 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 military power and perform sacrifices ...
... 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 military power and perform sacrifices ...
الصفحة xxxi
... secure Indian self— rule with the support of the Muslim Khilafat Movement and the Indian National Congress. 1922 Chauri Chaura killing; Gandhi calls off non—cooperation. 1925 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) founded. 1927 Simon ...
... secure Indian self— rule with the support of the Muslim Khilafat Movement and the Indian National Congress. 1922 Chauri Chaura killing; Gandhi calls off non—cooperation. 1925 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) founded. 1927 Simon ...
الصفحة 4
... secure access to the agricultural surplus of the countryside. Like them, they possessed a fragmented political authority, with rights to a share of the land revenue of a specific area assigned to their subordinates as a form of ...
... secure access to the agricultural surplus of the countryside. Like them, they possessed a fragmented political authority, with rights to a share of the land revenue of a specific area assigned to their subordinates as a form of ...
الصفحة 7
... secure booty for his cosmopolitan court at Ghazna (in contemporary Afghanistan), in a manner not unlike the raids of Indic rulers who carried away vanquished idols as symbols of their victory along with their booty. The sultans who ...
... secure booty for his cosmopolitan court at Ghazna (in contemporary Afghanistan), in a manner not unlike the raids of Indic rulers who carried away vanquished idols as symbols of their victory along with their booty. The sultans who ...
المحتوى
1 | |
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 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
agriculture Ahmad areas army Aurangzeb Awadh benefits Bengal Bihar Bombay Brahman Britain British Calcutta Cambridge caste central centre century civil colonial Company Company’s Concise History conflict country’s countryside cultural decades defined East India economic elections elite emerged Empire English European favour figure film final first Gandhi groups Gujarat Hindu History of India identified imperial increasingly independence Indian National influential institutions Islamic Jinnah Kashmir land language leaders liberal Lord Madras major Maratha ment military modern movement Mughal Mughal Empire Muslim League nationalist nawab Nehru non—cooperation office officers officials organization Oxford and Delhi Pakistan peasant Plate political population princes provinces Punjab Rajiv Rajput reform regional religious revenue revolt rule rulers Sabha Sanskrit Sayyid secure Shah Shah Bano Sikh Singh social society sought subcontinent sufi Sultanate temple Thomas Metcalf tion took trade tradition University Press Urdu viceroy village women zamindars