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 i
... social and economic development and its rich cultural life. Throughout, the authors argue that despite a powerful historiographical tradition to the contrary, no enduring meaning can be given to categories such as 'caste', 'Hindu ...
... social and economic development and its rich cultural life. Throughout, the authors argue that despite a powerful historiographical tradition to the contrary, no enduring meaning can be given to categories such as 'caste', 'Hindu ...
الصفحة xvi
... social changes and the cultural values that were con— stituted in interaction with that political structure and that vision. We have chosen to place political history and the doings of the social elite at the centre of our narrative ...
... social changes and the cultural values that were con— stituted in interaction with that political structure and that vision. We have chosen to place political history and the doings of the social elite at the centre of our narrative ...
الصفحة 6
... Brahmanical influence in the pre—colonial period, in any case, is increasingly contested. Nor, perhaps surprisingly, did the sufis themselves ever teach that Islam offered social equality. Indeed, how— 6 A Concise History ofModern India.
... Brahmanical influence in the pre—colonial period, in any case, is increasingly contested. Nor, perhaps surprisingly, did the sufis themselves ever teach that Islam offered social equality. Indeed, how— 6 A Concise History ofModern India.
الصفحة 7
... social equality. Indeed, how— ever much they may have preached equality before Allah, Muslims have always lived in hierarchic societies. In areas undergoing agrarian settlement, sufis did nevertheless play a key role as agents of ...
... social equality. Indeed, how— ever much they may have preached equality before Allah, Muslims have always lived in hierarchic societies. In areas undergoing agrarian settlement, sufis did nevertheless play a key role as agents of ...
الصفحة 12
... changes in trading networks, social life, and religious institutions, as well as political strategies, that made for continuity across a broad geographical area. The fifteenth and early sixteenth 12 A Concise History ofModern India.
... changes in trading networks, social life, and religious institutions, as well as political strategies, that made for continuity across a broad geographical area. The fifteenth and early sixteenth 12 A Concise History ofModern India.
المحتوى
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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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