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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... institutions in place that had made the Mughals, in the interven— ing century, the most powerful empire the subcontinent had ever known. It was far greater in population, wealth, and power than the contemporaneous Turko—Mongol empires ...
... institutions in place that had made the Mughals, in the interven— ing century, the most powerful empire the subcontinent had ever known. It was far greater in population, wealth, and power than the contemporaneous Turko—Mongol empires ...
الصفحة 3
... institutions. These changes, not some stagnant society, form the prelude to the colonial era. Nor, one might add, did Muslim rulers fit the caricature assigned them. It is, for instance, misleading to speak of them as 'foreign', for, in ...
... institutions. These changes, not some stagnant society, form the prelude to the colonial era. Nor, one might add, did Muslim rulers fit the caricature assigned them. It is, for instance, misleading to speak of them as 'foreign', for, in ...
الصفحة 4
... institutions of these dynasties were thus not specifically 'Islamic'. The sultans themselves were not religious leaders. Like non—Muslim rulers, they did not gain their authority through their own holiness or sacred learning but through ...
... institutions of these dynasties were thus not specifically 'Islamic'. The sultans themselves were not religious leaders. Like non—Muslim rulers, they did not gain their authority through their own holiness or sacred learning but through ...
الصفحة 5
... institutional similarities between Muslim and non— Muslim states, Muslim dynasties did chart new directions. For ... institutions, as well as distinctive cultural traditions in law, political theory, and literary and religious styles ...
... institutional similarities between Muslim and non— Muslim states, Muslim dynasties did chart new directions. For ... institutions, as well as distinctive cultural traditions in law, political theory, and literary and religious styles ...
الصفحة 8
... institutions of the sufi tradition. Like the 'ulama associated with the courts, the sufi holy men typically adhered to the shari'a, but they also stressed inner realization of the divine presence, the practice of moral and physical ...
... institutions of the sufi tradition. Like the 'ulama associated with the courts, the sufi holy men typically adhered to the shari'a, but they also stressed inner realization of the divine presence, the practice of moral and physical ...
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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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