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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... land, jagirs, as the basis of their remuneration. By rotat— ing these assignments frequently, nobles were incapacitated from building a local base that could challenge Mughal authority. Even a relatively centralized empire like this ...
... land, jagirs, as the basis of their remuneration. By rotat— ing these assignments frequently, nobles were incapacitated from building a local base that could challenge Mughal authority. Even a relatively centralized empire like this ...
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... lands as well. The basic openness and eclecticism of the period is illustrated by the incorporation, with the advent of the European trading companies, of new techniques of shipbuilding, horticulture, and even art (for example, in ...
... lands as well. The basic openness and eclecticism of the period is illustrated by the incorporation, with the advent of the European trading companies, of new techniques of shipbuilding, horticulture, and even art (for example, in ...
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... land of opportunity'. But cultural areas spilled out beyond current bor— ders, and those within central Asian circuits, or ocean—borne trading networks east and west, arguably had more in common within these areas than with putatively ...
... land of opportunity'. But cultural areas spilled out beyond current bor— ders, and those within central Asian circuits, or ocean—borne trading networks east and west, arguably had more in common within these areas than with putatively ...
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... land of self—sufficient villages, rigid caste hierarchies, and overall stagnation, reads characteristics of colonial society into the pre—colonial past. 2 Mughal twilight: The emergence of regional states and the 28 A Concise History ...
... land of self—sufficient villages, rigid caste hierarchies, and overall stagnation, reads characteristics of colonial society into the pre—colonial past. 2 Mughal twilight: The emergence of regional states and the 28 A Concise History ...
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... lands. With Gobind's death, worldly leadership passed to guerilla chiefs, of whom the strongest was Banda. Although the Mughals had the support of several Punjab zamin— dars and lineage heads, only in 1715 did they finally defeat and ...
... lands. With Gobind's death, worldly leadership passed to guerilla chiefs, of whom the strongest was Banda. Although the Mughals had the support of several Punjab zamin— dars and lineage heads, only in 1715 did they finally defeat and ...
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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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