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 29
... regional states and the East India Company Our time traveller in 1707, especially if he had been misled by Euro— pean accounts of 'Oriental despots', may well have failed to appre— ciate the extent to which the Mughal Empire, like other ...
... regional states and the East India Company Our time traveller in 1707, especially if he had been misled by Euro— pean accounts of 'Oriental despots', may well have failed to appre— ciate the extent to which the Mughal Empire, like other ...
الصفحة 31
... seige of his hill—fort refuge by a com— bined Mughal and zamindari force, Papadu was captured and killed. Rebellion of this sort, as Richards and Narayana Rao make The emergence of regional states and the East India Company 31.
... seige of his hill—fort refuge by a com— bined Mughal and zamindari force, Papadu was captured and killed. Rebellion of this sort, as Richards and Narayana Rao make The emergence of regional states and the East India Company 31.
الصفحة 33
... , Sind and much of the Punjab, attacked Delhi. The Delhi area was further challenged Plate 2.1 Daulatabad Fortress, Maharashtra. from within by the Afghan The emergence of regional states and the East India Company 33.
... , Sind and much of the Punjab, attacked Delhi. The Delhi area was further challenged Plate 2.1 Daulatabad Fortress, Maharashtra. from within by the Afghan The emergence of regional states and the East India Company 33.
الصفحة 35
... REGIONAL ORDER; 'MILITARY FISCALISM' AND CULTURAL EFFLORESCENCE The view from Delhi, nevertheless, does not describe India as a whole. Overall, the eighteenth century was a period of gradual population growth, slow rise in prices ...
... REGIONAL ORDER; 'MILITARY FISCALISM' AND CULTURAL EFFLORESCENCE The view from Delhi, nevertheless, does not describe India as a whole. Overall, the eighteenth century was a period of gradual population growth, slow rise in prices ...
الصفحة 37
... regional states was the recruitment of infantry forces, handling more efficient artillery and deployed with far greater discipline and effectiveness than the traditional mounted cavalry of the Mughals. The eighteenth—century states ...
... regional states was the recruitment of infantry forces, handling more efficient artillery and deployed with far greater discipline and effectiveness than the traditional mounted cavalry of the Mughals. The eighteenth—century states ...
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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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