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 xxii
... 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 military power and perform ...
... 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 military power and perform ...
الصفحة 4
... sought above all military successes in order to 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 ...
... sought above all military successes in order to 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 ...
الصفحة 8
... sought to present themselves as distant from the corruption of worldly rule. The founders of the most important sufi lineages, Chishti, Suhrawardi, Qadiri, and Naqshbandi, were central and west Asian in origin, but they flourished in ...
... sought to present themselves as distant from the corruption of worldly rule. The founders of the most important sufi lineages, Chishti, Suhrawardi, Qadiri, and Naqshbandi, were central and west Asian in origin, but they flourished in ...
الصفحة 15
... Rajasthan. Akbar embraced and then built on the Sultanate policy of a diverse and inclusive ruling elite. He sought to incorporate powerful درتهای نما به درست کرد اگر عوض تمام برگزار بای Sultans, Mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society 15.
... Rajasthan. Akbar embraced and then built on the Sultanate policy of a diverse and inclusive ruling elite. He sought to incorporate powerful درتهای نما به درست کرد اگر عوض تمام برگزار بای Sultans, Mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society 15.
الصفحة 18
... sought shared esoteric or philosophic truths across traditions , as well as disciplinary practices in the pursuit of those truths . He patronized translations into Persian of the Sanskrit Ramayana ( the story of Lord Ram ) and ...
... sought shared esoteric or philosophic truths across traditions , as well as disciplinary practices in the pursuit of those truths . He patronized translations into Persian of the Sanskrit Ramayana ( the story of Lord Ram ) and ...
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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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