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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... imperial ritual when he felt slighted by the rank awarded him. Shivaji gained legitimacy from Mughal honours, but he also sought status elsewhere. Under the Mughals, the term Rajput had become the symbol of legitimate kshatriya rule ...
... imperial ritual when he felt slighted by the rank awarded him. Shivaji gained legitimacy from Mughal honours, but he also sought status elsewhere. Under the Mughals, the term Rajput had become the symbol of legitimate kshatriya rule ...
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... imperial cultural policies, was a thorn in the side of the empire, and was even imprisoned for his self— aggrandizement by Jahangir. But his cosmological and philosophical thought had lasting impact not only within the subcontinent but ...
... imperial cultural policies, was a thorn in the side of the empire, and was even imprisoned for his self— aggrandizement by Jahangir. But his cosmological and philosophical thought had lasting impact not only within the subcontinent but ...
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... imperial failure. He was, as John Richards has writ— ten, one of many who claimed generations of loyalty to the Mughal regime, men who prided themselves on their devotion and courage as well as their mastery of Indo—Persian courtly ...
... imperial failure. He was, as John Richards has writ— ten, one of many who claimed generations of loyalty to the Mughal regime, men who prided themselves on their devotion and courage as well as their mastery of Indo—Persian courtly ...
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... imperial prime minister, Nizamu'l Mulk, withdrew to Hyderabad, ceased to participate in imperial projects, and even fought against Mughal troops to assert his autonomy. Harsh reality was soon dignified by ceremony, as he was made Mughal ...
... imperial prime minister, Nizamu'l Mulk, withdrew to Hyderabad, ceased to participate in imperial projects, and even fought against Mughal troops to assert his autonomy. Harsh reality was soon dignified by ceremony, as he was made Mughal ...
الصفحة 32
... imperial and local chiefly authority, Papadu struck too boldly at the most basic ordering of society, and thus mobilized against him all those with a stake in the established hierarchies of caste and wealth. These Mughal 'fault lines ...
... imperial and local chiefly authority, Papadu struck too boldly at the most basic ordering of society, and thus mobilized against him all those with a stake in the established hierarchies of caste and wealth. These Mughal 'fault lines ...
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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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