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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... Sanskrit 'sastras' describe ideal society of four hierarchic classes: Brahmans ritually superior, above warriors, farm— ers and merchants, and workers and servants. Indo—Greeks, Shakas, Kushans enter through the north—west and establish ...
... Sanskrit 'sastras' describe ideal society of four hierarchic classes: Brahmans ritually superior, above warriors, farm— ers and merchants, and workers and servants. Indo—Greeks, Shakas, Kushans enter through the north—west and establish ...
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... Sanskrit texts, and played roles in the temple cults where devotional piety (hhaleti) flourished in the centuries of Sultanate rule. For all these institutional similarities between Muslim and non— Muslim states, Muslim dynasties did ...
... Sanskrit texts, and played roles in the temple cults where devotional piety (hhaleti) flourished in the centuries of Sultanate rule. For all these institutional similarities between Muslim and non— Muslim states, Muslim dynasties did ...
الصفحة 18
... Sanskrit Ramayana (the story of Lord Ram) and Mahabharata, as well as miniature painting representing episodes of the two epics. He abolished the jizya taxes levied on non—Muslims. Jahangir continued his father's catholic religious ...
... Sanskrit Ramayana (the story of Lord Ram) and Mahabharata, as well as miniature painting representing episodes of the two epics. He abolished the jizya taxes levied on non—Muslims. Jahangir continued his father's catholic religious ...
الصفحة 21
... Sanskrit Upanishads and wrote a treatise linking sufi and Upanishadic philosophical thought, his celebrated Ma/ma'u'l-hahrain (The Mingling of the Two Oceans). To focus on divergent philosophies neglects the fact that Dara was a poor ...
... Sanskrit Upanishads and wrote a treatise linking sufi and Upanishadic philosophical thought, his celebrated Ma/ma'u'l-hahrain (The Mingling of the Two Oceans). To focus on divergent philosophies neglects the fact that Dara was a poor ...
الصفحة 24
... Sanskrit Vedic texts: Brahman priests as ritual guardians of social purity; Kshatriya warriors; Vaisya merchants; and Shudra peasants. Nor were 'sub— castes' or jati (endogamous groups identified by varna) the build— ing blocks of ...
... Sanskrit Vedic texts: Brahman priests as ritual guardians of social purity; Kshatriya warriors; Vaisya merchants; and Shudra peasants. Nor were 'sub— castes' or jati (endogamous groups identified by varna) the build— ing blocks of ...
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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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