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 xii
... Thomas Metcalf. 5:30 P.M. on the Gurgaon Expressway. Photograph by Thomas Metcalf. Army officer trying to disperse local people blockading a road in restive Manipur, 2010. Photograph courtesy of Kishalay Bhattacharjee. Village ...
... Thomas Metcalf. 5:30 P.M. on the Gurgaon Expressway. Photograph by Thomas Metcalf. Army officer trying to disperse local people blockading a road in restive Manipur, 2010. Photograph courtesy of Kishalay Bhattacharjee. Village ...
الصفحة xiii
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION The first edition of A Concise History of India appeared in 2001, and covered events up to the end of the twentieth century in 2000. A second edition, titled A Concise ...
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION The first edition of A Concise History of India appeared in 2001, and covered events up to the end of the twentieth century in 2000. A second edition, titled A Concise ...
الصفحة xiv
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. special attention given to the rise of Hindu nationalism, and the growth and consequences of economic liberalization over the twenty years since the coming into office in 199 1 of the Narasimha Rao ...
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. special attention given to the rise of Hindu nationalism, and the growth and consequences of economic liberalization over the twenty years since the coming into office in 199 1 of the Narasimha Rao ...
الصفحة xvii
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. those needs, in our view, is to show that commonsense notions of continuity, fostered by nationalism, must be replaced by an under— standing of the newness of modern identities, and the new meanings ...
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. those needs, in our view, is to show that commonsense notions of continuity, fostered by nationalism, must be replaced by an under— standing of the newness of modern identities, and the new meanings ...
الصفحة xxviii
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. 6th century B.C. 'Axial Age' of philosophical efflorescence across the Old World: Mahavira Jain (599-527), whose followers are known as 'Jains', and Gautama Buddha (563-483), teacher of the 'Bud ...
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. 6th century B.C. 'Axial Age' of philosophical efflorescence across the Old World: Mahavira Jain (599-527), whose followers are known as 'Jains', and Gautama Buddha (563-483), teacher of the 'Bud ...
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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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